Peter Maddern

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Aug 23

RAW: Adelaide City Council takes the step to ban cigarettes in Rundle Mall

“Rundle Mall is competing with other shopping centres where smoking is not allowed and we want a level playing field.” Said Mayor Yarwood, this is despite studies that have shown that smoking regulations have had little to no effect on retail trading either positively or negatively.

Aug 23

RAW: How The Shoppies Run This State (With Our Money)

The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA) is South Australia’s biggest trade union, claiming a membership of 23,000 – a number inflated by including the Northern Territory – drawn from the retail, fast food and warehouse industries. This tiny minority effectively rules SA and dictates every move of the Labor Government. How? Money.

Aug 22

RAW: SALA – Moving Image Project – Peel Street

Next weekend shall be the final crowning culmination of the month long affair with the street once again being hijacked by a troupe of performers utilising music, dance and projection to create a mind altering atmosphere within the city street.

Aug 22

RAW: SALA – Yiloga – Tiwi Footy – Peter Eve & Monica Napper – Tandanya

With both our local AFL sides going so poorly, a visit to Tandanya to see Yiloga – Tiwi Footy would, for those fans, serve as both a useful diversion and a reminder of the joys of just being a part of it all. For sports and event photographers it is a must.

Aug 19

RAW: What is the current state of the journalism industry?

Recent years have seen the toppling of several of the world’s largest and most venerable newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets and the monopolisation of the few remaining.

Aug 18

RAW – SALA – Moving Image Project – Various

The big innovation in the 2011 SALA Festival is the introduction of the Moving Image Project, conducted in conjunction with the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Aug 17

RAW: Oh, So This Is What SACA Members Voted For

Ah, the new world of AFL at Adelaide Oval has arrived and as suspected by the whinging naysayers it is not looking anything like it was talked up that it was going to be.

Aug 17

RAW: Roads By Night, Lanes By Light – Gary Cockburn

Documentary and arts photographer Gary Cockburn has returned to the streets of Edinburgh to continue capturing ‘the scenes behind the scenes’ for his ongoing photo-essay Into The Fringe, which intimately documents the people and places of the world’s two largest Fringe festivals.

Aug 16

RAW: SALA – How Do We Love Thee – Fine Art Kangaroo Island – Nat Wine Centre – 4.5K

There are many, many art works that will catch your eye and Fleur and Fred Peters are to be congratulated on their efforts in putting this exhibition together – it is one of the standout displays of this year’s SALA. 4.5K

Aug 15

RAW: Waterhouse Natural History Art Exhibition – SA Museum

As with previous years, the exhibition attracts a diversity of styles that matches the world it attempts to portray. Also, as with past years, the five person judging panel has not confined its credit to particular methods or movements