Notes on Adelaide Solstice Podcasting

Trudy Lin is a dentist but also an activist – and her primary measure of success is ensuring everyone has the capacity to eat, speak and smile.

In 1946, sharp-eyed geologist Reg Sprigg noticed some strange patterns in the rocks of the Flinders Ranges. What he had discovered was a groundbreaking a fossil record of complex creatures dating back 550 million years.

Last weekend was a historic coming together of two key moments in women’s sport. The AFLW premiership was decided, with Melbourne winning its first premiership, and the Adelaide Strikers won its first title in cricket’s WBBL.

It was a weekend of high-profile, nationally televised sport that wouldn’t have seemed likely just a few decades ago, with both sporting codes once entrenched in the nation’s mind as the pinnacle of Australian masculinity.

But women have played both sports for decades – despite little support in the past from governing bodies or the media.

That has changed – seemingly in the blink of an eye.

On the podcast this week, David Washington is joined by Liz Walsh, a journalist who has charted the rise of elite women’s cricket and football to discuss how far we’ve come – and where to next.
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In South Australia's north lies an alien landscape - scarred by more than a century of mining. The huge site desperately needs further rehabilitation but, in this week's episode, we detail allegations of regulatory failure in relation to this and many other mine sites across the country.

 

For almost 150 years, the hills of Mount Gunson have been mined for copper – a metal integral to South Australia’s modern history and increasingly important for the world’s electrified future.

The huge site – south of Woomera – has passed through many hands over the time, with mining companies riding numerous copper booms, making their money and moving on.

Today, Mount Gunson’s mining past has left huge scars on the country – the legacy of 50,000 trucks’ worth of copper being pulled out of this epic landscape.

We’ve been told this is a classic case study in a worrying phenomenon across Australia – a mining landscape left largely unrehabilitated.

Joining us on the podcast this week is CityMag reporter Angela Skujins and RMIT researcher Gavin Mudd.

Angela Skujins' story on Mount Gunson is in the summer 2022 print edition of CityMag. To find your nearest outlet to pick up a free copy, go here.

To find out more about Gavin Mudd's research, go here.
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The public has spoken and Team Adelaide has been all but vanquished in the city council elections. This week, we take a closer look at this unusual blip in the history of local democracy in Adelaide.

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has focused attention on the social media platform’s worst aspects. But there was a time in Adelaide when the site brought people together.