A brief update to say thanks to the many from this list who attended. We had an energetic and noisy but good-spirited rally yesterday Sunday 6 July with very good numbers - all despite an audio meltdown. We filled the space and spilled onto the roadway. Apologies though, to those who struggled to hear.

We are preparing for our next initiative. but could you continue to share this petition please.

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Here is one excerp from the speeches:

"Adelaide is being dragged back into the last century!

There are those of us who want a modern city- characterful, walkable, medium density, a humanised city, the sort of city that is happening everywhere, through Europe, and through Australia. Cities focussed on being more walkable by creating human friendly public spaces - and open plazas!

But we are engaged in a culture war with a government and with property interests who want to drag us back into a world of social alienation, health and social problems and lack of urban character, the world of sixties-style high-rise.

But there can be no going back to the last century. There is a clear message from 21st century planning: cities become healthier and wealthier, more sustainable, more liveable, more visitable, more characterful. People want to be there, people want to stay there, people want to move there. And city after city displays the same result, which is that a city’s attractiveness is not just something nice to have, but is fundamental to its long-term economic health.

And Adelaide had a head start- a very attractive city because it avoided the worst of the twentieth century’s excesses – up until now, ironically, in this, the 21st century."

If you have the time to write to a politician, we suggest you tell them that you don't want to return to the last century. That would like to live in an Adelaide that is livelier, more walkable, more characterful, has gentle density and is more economically sustainable, that you don't want Adelaide to go back to the the mistakes of last century.

Lucy Hood, Member for Adelaide                        adelaide@parliament.sa.gov.au

The State Treasurer Stephen Mullighan MP.      Treasurer.DTF@sa.gov.au