Adelaide Fringe,formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival,is Australia’s biggest arts festival and is the world's second-largest annual arts festival,held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between mid-February and mid-March each year,it features more than 7,000 artists from around Australia and the world. Over 1,300 events are staged in hundreds of venues,which include work in a huge variety of performing and visual art forms. The Fringe features many free events occur alongside ticketed events for the duration of the festival.
Jane Diane Lomax-Smith,AM is an Australian politician and histopathologist serving as Lord Mayor of Adelaide since 14 November 2022. Lomax-Smith previously held the position of Lord Mayor between 1997 and 2000,after serving as a City of Adelaide councillor from 1991 to 1997.
The City of Marion is a local government area in part of the southern and western suburbs of Adelaide,South Australia. The council offices are in the suburb of Sturt.
The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide,South Australia,founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands. Plans are under way to move much of its Australian Aboriginal cultural collection,into a new National Gallery for Aboriginal Art and Cultures.
The City of Parramatta,also known as Parramatta Council,is a local government area located to the west and north-west of Sydney CBD in the Greater Western Sydney region. Parramatta Council is situated between the City of Ryde and Cumberland,where the Cumberland Plain meets the Hornsby Plateau,approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the Sydney central business district,in New South Wales,Australia. The city occupies an area of 84 square kilometres (32 sq mi) spanning across suburbs in Greater Western Sydney including the Hills District,and a small section of Northern Sydney to the far north east of its area. According to the 2021 census,City of Parramatta had an estimated population of 256,729. The city houses the Parramatta central business district which is one of the key suburban employment destinations for the region of Greater Western Sydney.
Michael John Henry Harbison was the Lord Mayor of Adelaide,South Australia from 2003 to 2010. He was succeeded by Stephen Yarwood in 2010. He is also Adelaide's longest serving mayor.
The City of Adelaide,also known as the Corporation of the City of Adelaide and Adelaide City Council,is a local government area in the metropolitan area of greater Adelaide,South Australia. It is legally defined as the capital city of South Australia by the City of Adelaide Act 1998. It includes the Adelaide city centre,the suburb of North Adelaide,and the Adelaide Park Lands,which surround North Adelaide and the city centre.
The Corporation of the Town of Walkerville is a small local government area in the central suburbs of Adelaide,South Australia.
Adelaide Festival Centre,Australia's first capital city multi-purpose arts centre and the home of South Australia's performing arts,was built in the early 1970s and designed by Hassell Architects. The Festival Theatre opened in June 1973 with the rest of the centre and the Festival Plaza following soon after.
Feast Festival is an LGBTI Festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The event is one of Australia's four major queer festivals,alongside Perth's Pride Festival,Melbourne's Midsumma and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Gregory Alan Mackie is a South Australian cultural advocate and entrepreneur who has worked to promote the arts and culture in Australia. He served two separate terms as an elected Councillor on the Adelaide City Council. He was managing director of independent bookshop Imprints Booksellers from 1984 to 2007,and founded the Adelaide Festival of Ideas in 1999.
Rachel Sanderson is an Australian politician who represented the seat of Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia from the 2010 election to the 2022 election. Sanderson served as the minister for Child Protection in the Marshall Ministry.
Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill was a businessman,solicitor and Lord Mayor of Adelaide,South Australia.
Lorraine Florence Rosenberg is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1993 to 1997,and was then Mayor of the City of Onkaparinga from 2006 to 2018.
Martin Kinnear Haese was the Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide in South Australia from 2014 to 2018. Haese is an educator and an entrepreneur,who founded the Youthworks fashion chain in 1993 and built the business into a national chain of clothing,footwear,and lifestyle stores which he sold in 2005.
Brisbane City Council is the local government of the City of Brisbane,the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. The largest local government in Australia by population and area,BCC's jurisdiction includes 26 wards and 27 elected councillors covering 1,338 km2 (517 sq mi). Council consists of the 26 councillors and the Lord Mayor of Brisbane. By resolution,Council may make local laws. The Lord Mayor is responsible for the key executive functions of Council,such as implementing the policies of Council,preparing the budget and directing Council's senior employees. They are supported by the Civic Council,whose members are drawn from Council and each chair one of Council's standing committees. The council's current CEO is Colin Jensen,supported by EO Ainsley Gold.
Erin Louise Thompson is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 state election,representing Davenport. With a swing of 11.6 per cent,she defeated the Liberal Party member,Steve Murray,who had held the seat since 2018. Until the 2022 state election,Davenport had been held exclusively by Liberal Party members since its creation prior to the 1970 election. According to ABC election analyst Antony Green,prior to the 2022 election the frequent redistributions had little impact on the Liberal margin in Davenport,but there had been a slow narrowing between the Davenport results and the state-wide Liberal two-party-preferred vote.
Team Adelaide was an Australian political grouping. It controlled the City of Adelaide,a local government area in South Australia,between 2018 and 2022.
The 2022 Adelaide City Council election was held on 12 November 2022 to elect a lord mayor and 11 councillors to the City of Adelaide. The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in South Australia.
