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Gawler Chambers was built as the head office for the South Australia Company in 1913.

The South Australia Company was originally formed in London in 1835 by wealthy British merchants to develop a new settlement in South Australia; its purpose was to build a new colony: us!

During the early period of South Australia’s development, the company displayed great energy and enterprise in building the new settlement. Roads and bridges were built. Mills, wharfs and warehouses were erected. Local whaling, fishing and shipbuilding industries were established and mineral exploration was promoted.

The company purchased 102 lots of land of 135 acres. This included prime town and country sections totalling 13,770 acres. This was sufficient to enable emigration to begin!

The South Australian Company was not officially connected to the government but its interventions saved the colony!

Gawler Chambers now sits vacant, disused and off-limits to the general public.

North Terrace, Adelaide CBD

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Demolition of the building behind it has uncovered the rear of this builing on North Terrace. Viewed from Synagogue Place, Adelaide CBD

“Do you ever think about concrete?” opens the trailer for The History of Concrete, a documentary released in select theaters in the U.S. last Friday. If your answer is no, the quirky new feature by filmmaker John Wilson may mean you can’t get it out of your head.

Wilson is known for the cult-favorite, comedic HBO docuseries How To with John Wilson, which he described as being “kind of like that show Planet Earth, except if it was only in New York and David Attenborough was forced to film everything himself.” His movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that’s immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live.

The film captures concrete’s ubiquity in urban sidewalks, buildings, and homes, not to mention the eccentric ways it appears on the streets and in the industries that have grown up around it. To most of us, it’s a kind of infrastructural building block, but through Wilson’s lens, it’s an unlikely medium through which to understand New York and its denizens.

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Farage referred to the new unit and said Burnham was setting it up ‘using the excuse that Russia wants to interfere with elections’

The former Labour minister leading the government’s review into youth unemployment has written to 100 firms to ask them to provide work placements and jobs for young people, the Press Association reports. PA says:

Alan Milburn, who was commissioned by former prime minister Keir Starmer to lead the government’s review into worklessness, has approached “business leaders” in sectors including rail, transport and utilities to ask them to provide more chances for young people.

The Milburn review said Royal Mail, Octopus Energy, Greene King and Lloyds bank are among the companies who are already offering opportunities to school and university leavers. They are taking part in the review’s First Chance scheme, which has come from the review.

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• Women’s triathlon will award first medals of Games

• Beach start only second in Olympic triathlon history

The first medals of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will be doled out on the eclectic confines of Venice Beach, where organizers have unveiled a triathlon course that will send athletes racing from the sand into the Pacific Ocean.

LA28 unveiled initial details of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlon routes on Wednesday, laying out a compact course through Venice that takes in the beachfront bike path, neighboring streets and the Venice Canals before finishing overlooking the coastline.

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From highlighted ledges to characters telling you what to do, blockbuster games are increasingly taking the challenge out of playing – and players are pushing back

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Marvel’s Wolverine, the latest action game from Sony’s stable of expensive blockbuster-factory studios, has had an unfortunate launch. Reviews were decent, if not stellar, but a series of viral video clips from reviewers and streamers have made it the scapegoat for a patronising flavour of game design that gamers have hated for decades. This clip, from Skill Up’s review, shows the player entering a beautiful wintry landscape before being overwhelmed by visual cues telling them what they’re supposed to be doing there. Sonar pulses point you in the direction of objectives. Targets – which, it bears emphasising, are shaped like targets – get an extra reflective visual effect so you know you’re supposed to pay attention to them. A trail shows you not just where to go, but where the level’s sole hidden collectible is.

It is hand-holding to the point of parody. Indeed, it reminded me of the sniggersome Mario in Unreal Engine satirical videos that makes the social media rounds every few months (“A mushroom? I should take a look at this”). Skill Up’s clip has been followed by hundreds of others, gleefully ripping into Wolverine with ironic savagery. In one much-copied clip, a streamer simply lays down his controller during a motorbike chase sequence and watches as Wolverine speeds on regardless, bouncing off the scenery as the game plays itself.

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Onder het voorzitterschap van Amma Asante is het Commissariaat voor de Media betrokken bij tal van actuele dossiers, zoals de vraag of de aspirant-omroep ON! nog wel thuishoort in het publieke bestel en de nieuwe Mediawet waarover de Tweede Kamer deze donderdag debatteert.

U schreef ons over jongeren die vast komen te zitten in zorgsystemen, homo-emancipatie en het Narionaal Archief.

Vorige week presenteerde Jürgen Klopp, sinds deze zomer bondscoach, zijn selectie voor de aankomende Nations League-wedstrijden. De aandacht ging vooral uit naar zijn opmerkingen over de Duitse nationale trots.

Villagers have been playing river football annually since the late 19th century.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Vrijwel de volledige gemeenteraad van Den Haag wil opheldering over de extreemrechtse rellen op het Malieveld afgelopen zaterdag. Negen van de elf partijen hebben samen vragen gesteld aan het college van burgemeester en wethouders.

De partijen willen onder meer weten of burgemeester Jan van Zanen vooraf wist dat in extreemrechtse groepen werd opgeroepen tot geweld, en welke maatregelen zijn genomen om ongeregeldheden te voorkomen. Daarnaast vragen de partijen wat er kan worden gedaan tegen "racistische en antisemitische uitingen", "uitingen met neonazistische symboliek" en "uitingen van homohaat". Verder willen ze horen wat de gevolgen zijn als de organisator weer een protest wil organiseren.

Honderden mensen deden zaterdag in Den Haag mee aan de demonstratie 'Wij zijn het volk'. Er waren vlaggen van de extreemrechtse Nederlandse Nationalistische Beweging (NNB) te zien. Sommige deelnemers brachten de Hitlergroet.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De Syrische leider Ahmed al-Sharaa heeft in zijn bijdrage aan het plenair debat van de Algemene Vergadering van de VN herhaald dat de door Israël bezette Golanhoogten Syrisch zijn en blijven. De omstreden landsdelen, grenzend aan het noorden van Israël, worden al decennia door Israël geclaimd en gelden vandaag de dag als Israëlische bufferzone.

Tegen de zaal in New York zei Al-Sharaa dat hoewel de reputatie van Syrië mondiaal in de lift zit, Israël nog altijd Syrië aanvalt. Volgens de Syrische president werden al meer dan vijfhonderd luchtaanvallen en 1200 invallen gedaan. Ook zouden meer dan driehonderd mensen door Israël zijn vastgezet. Die daden noemt Al-Sharaa "strijdig met de houding die we zien op wereldniveau". Hij roept Israël dan ook op zich terug te trekken tot de positie die het had tot de val van het regime-Assad, eind december 2024.

"Vrede is mogelijk voor wie het nastreeft in vrede te leven", aldus Al-Sharaa, "een rechtvaardige vrede, die de rechten van allen respecteert."

Leading business figures in Russia have said the latest asset seizures should serve as a warning signal to Europe amid ongoing discussions to use frozen Russian assets in the West to help finance Ukraine.

Americans are growing more and more wary of datacenters, with a Pew Research Center survey finding sharp rises since January in those who view the effect on the environment, energy bills, and nearby communities negatively. Pew surveyed 10,548 US adults between July 20 and August 9. Fifty-four percent said datacenters were mostly bad for the environment, up from 39 percent in January. Half said they were mostly bad for household energy costs, up from 38 percent, while 49 percent viewed them negatively for the quality of life of nearby residents, up from 30 percent. In each category, only 4 percent described their impact as mostly good. Views were more evenly divided on local employment and tax revenue, while 12 percent of respondents said they had not heard of datacenters. The shift spans demographic groups: men and women, adults of every age and education level, and urban, suburban, and rural residents have all grown more negative since the start of the year. The movement also crosses party lines. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents remain more negative than Republicans and Republican leaners, but among the latter group, 42 percent now say datacenters are mostly bad for nearby residents' quality of life, up from 24 percent in January. The research comes amid growing scrutiny of datacenters' electricity and water consumption and their effects on household utility bills. The Register has reported on US senators investigating rising energy bills, gaps in operators' disclosure of emissions, and allegations that compute sheds consume more water than their owners acknowledge. Amazon's chief sustainability officer this week said communities should hold the company accountable over datacenters and called for greater transparency about their effects. The industry has long recognized its image problem. At last year's Datacloud Global Congress, executives discussed ways to win over communities increasingly wary of new facilities. Republican officials have taken differing positions. Trump has consistently supported datacenter construction, arguing that it is needed to help the US compete with China, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott imposed a statewide moratorium in August after previously backing expansion. Trump has also blamed opposition to datacenters on Chinese propaganda. Whatever the cause, 60 percent of respondents said they would be not too or not at all comfortable with a new datacenter operating nearby. Majorities of urban, suburban, and rural Americans agreed. ®

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handwritten on back of photograph, “Sneaky, Frank, Bessie's friend"

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Je hond uitlaten en daarmee de lhbtiqa+ gemeenschap ondersteunen, het kan vandaag in Rotterdam. In Het Park bij de Euromast wordt een heuse Rotterdam Pride Dog Walk georganiseerd, als onderdeel van Rotterdam Pride. Sabine loopt mee, met haar hondjes Charlie en Kola. "Ik verwacht een vrolijke bedoening."

Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera, Doc? was made. “To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion.”