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In 2022, I am extending Salt Table Helper (EC) mobile app to cover groundwater in SA. It is a very dry state and there are precious reserves to incorporate. They have separate water reserves in the Southeast for farmers.
Adelaide has a high concentration of science and engineering companies compared to finance companies in Sydney.
Adelaide is the city of churches. It still has strong Christian roots.
We have always found Adelaide great to do business with.
Adelaide has an ethereal feel. How do they make money? It has worst economy in Australia.
In February 2026, Adelaide Writers' Week was cancelled because a pro-Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was banned by SA Premier Peter Malinauskas MP so 180 other writers boycotted it and head and board resigned till it was cancelled. This was after Bondi Jewish Massacre in Sydney on 14 Dec 2025 by Muslim extremist gunmen. Constellations rose from ashes to replace Adelaide Writers' Week. This has to do with censorship. Adelaide Festival 2026, featuring Pulp and The Cherry Orchard, explores censorship and class 3/26
South Australia has a great arts community and hold their annual festival. I being a musician and librarian find this a very rewarding place for the arts and historical research re aboriginal missions e.g. re Tindale anthropologist at South Australian Museum for my father S Preston Walker's book "Enriching Australia through educating indigenous people" due out in 2022.
I installed and catalogued a 1500 volume library for Christian group in Canberra for person who was an ex Defence engineer contractor from South Australia. So South Australians are always hitech.
On 24 November 2021, DTEX Systems, a cyber security company in Adelaide, was awarded best IT company in Australia as per Pearcey Foundation National Awards. Premier of SA Steven Marshall congratulated Mohan Koo of DTEX Systems who had returned to Adelaide from USA due to COVID-19 and grown his IT business in Australia remotely.
In July 2021, SA Tenders and Contracts said all their tenders were now going through Consolidated Tenders from Adelaide who also hosted tenders for Victoria, ACT, LG Tender Box Qld and Council Buys SA. Consolidated Tenders is a single sign on (SSO) for all those government tendering sites. They use metadata well and allow history reuse to gain more tenders. They also clean company data of suppliers so it is accurate using APIs to Australian Business Register.
The tender categories are too large so many irrelevant tenders are sent to suppliers. It is mainly aimed at enterprises in infrastructure projects not small business. Victoria Tenders will not fix wrong UNSPSC classification in tenders so they go to wrong business i.e. painting is art and painting services is house painting but they classify house painting as painting of art so artist or musician gets tender which is irrelevant. Engineering includes building and IT so any building tenders also go to IT suppliers which is irrelevant.
They do not allow for operations vs admin offices in their system so send emails with wrong admin address so business has to remove any operations address. Also any wrong classification in profile has to be corrected or wrong tenders are sent. Subscription to updates based on profile classification is useless and only keyword searches work with accuracy as classification is so broad and governments make classification errors.
There was no way of blocking wrong classification or irrelevant tenders unless business removed that category from their profile or unsubscribed from alerts to broad classification categories and just relied on keyword searches. It was a very stupid and biased system and favours large building companies over small IT companies.
In 2012, I was hoping to get a SA Government ICT tender. This did not eventuate by 2017 due to our small size.
In March 2012, we signed up as a NETGEAR reseller with an Adelaide distributor which fell through due to lack of sales.
In 1980s, a South Australian software engineer worked with me at CSC in Sydney on New Submarine Defence project. See Huge Projects for Defence projects in Adelaide.
On 21 March 2026, SA election will be held where ALP is predicted to have a huge majority according to polls.