Tag: Opinion

• Five under 500: Adelaide’s best hidden musicians

  

  UniCast President Rachel Forbes has been highlighting live music performances that may have flown under your radar on her radio show, The Skips. She’s put together five “hidden gem” musicians from Adelaide that you just can’t skip.

  ontherecord

  September 10, 2024

  Arts, Entertainment, Opinion, South Australia, Top stories

  Adelaide, Adelaide bands, Arts, Big Day Out, Big Sloe, Birdwatching, Druid Fluids, Folk music, Georgie Raft, Hidden Gems, Kaurna, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Live Music, Music, Music festivals, Normal Behaviour, Ocean Alley, Opinion, Pink Duke, Psychedelic, South Australia, Spotify, The Honey Pies, The Skips, UniCast, Univeristy of South Australia, Wake in Fright

• Distilling Down Under: showcasing SA’s gin at the Royal Adelaide Show

  

  South Australia is known for its wine regions, yet a fragrant spirit has seen rising popularity in South Australia’s backyard. You can taste a selection of the state’s finest gin at the Royal Adelaide Show.

  ontherecord

  September 6, 2024

  Food, Opinion, South Australia

  Adelaide, Distilling, Dry Gin, Fleurieu Gin, Fleurieu Peninsula, Gin, Ginny Pig, Goyder Pavilion, Heaps Good Spirits, Hospitality, International Wine and Spirits Competition, Juniper, McLaren, McLaren Vale, Mediterranean, Myponga, Never Never Distilling Co, Onkaparinga, Opinion, Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide Football Club, Prohibition, Prohibition Liquour Co, Red Hen Spirits, Route 9 Distillery, royal adelaide show, South Australia, South Australian hospitality, Spritz Sour, Square 1, StrangeLove, Taste SA Pavilion, Threefold Distilling, Tonic

• Half of Australia wants cannabis legalised, taxed, and regulated — will it happen?

  

  Australians support legal cannabis, but mainstream politicians do not. On The Record journalist Robert Hicks discusses the law, the politics, and the effect legalising cannabis could have on Australians.

  ontherecord

  January 3, 2024

  Analysis, Federal Politics, Long Reads, Opinion, South Australia, State Politics

  Australian Politics, Cannabis, Legalistation, Medicinal marijuana, Opinion, Political analysis, Polling

• World Cup hype provides opportunity to empower the future of women’s sports

  

  Australia finds itself immersed in the hype of hosting the women’s World Cup; and it is smashing all sorts of records. But, for OTR’s resident football nut Jacob Stevens, there’s more to it than numbers — there’s a chance to leave a lasting legacy for women’s sports.

  ontherecord

  August 15, 2023

  Opinion, Sport

  23WWC, FIFA World Cup, Opinion, soccer, Sport, Women’s World Cup, Women’s Sport

• An ode to R U OK

  

  R U OK? Day is one of many days that has great intentions, but how does it look in practice for those with mental health issues?

  ontherecord

  September 13, 2022

  Mental Health, Opinion

  Anxiety, conversation, Depression, exhuastion, headspace, lifeline, Mental Health, OCD, Opinion, R U OK? Day

• Sanna Marin did nothing wrong

  

  Footage of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing with friends has circulated in the media this week. She did nothing illegal and yet she’s faced major backlash. Why?

  ontherecord

  August 29, 2022

  Gender, Global Politics, Opinion

  backlash, Donald Trump, double standards, Equality, female leadership, Finland, Gender, Germaine Greer, Global Politics, international leaders, julia gillard, Media, Opinion, prime minister, privacy, Sanna Marin, Tony Abbott