u/Free_the_Radical

The Malinauskas Government is pleased to announce a bold new strategic partnership with iconic South Australian seafood franchise Barnacle Bill, under the new marine infrastructure banner BB Gulf, to support the future of the North Adelaide golf course redevelopment.

With Bonesaw LIV Golf funding drying up, the Government says it is moving quickly to secure a more resilient long-term financial model - one built on swift executive decision-making, saltwater aquaculture, and the removal of obstacles, both procedural and botanical.

Following the efficient bypassing of Adelaide City Council, the Government says it can now pursue a more streamlined vision for the Park Lands - one that combines championship golf, seafood production, and broad-scale tree removal in a single integrated development outcome.

Under the proposal, hundreds of trees will be removed to improve fairway sightlines, reduce canopy interference, and make way for a network of purpose-built saltwater ponds across the course. These ponds will support the breeding of fish for consumption, generating a fresh aquaculture revenue stream to help fund infrastructure that was previously expected to justify itself through the LIV model.

In acknowledgement of the new partnership, the Malinauskas Government has also announced that the Gulf of St Vincent will be officially renamed the Golf of St Vincent, reflecting what it describes as a more contemporary alignment between public land use, elite sport and seafood-based economic development.

A spokesperson for the Malinauskas Government said the shift reflects the Government’s strength in adapting when expensive ideas fail.

“When one funding model begins to collapse, it is the responsibility of government to act decisively. In this case, that means bypassing council, clearing remnant trees, installing fish ponds and allowing Barnacle Bill, through BB Gulf, to deliver the commercial certainty that elite golf could not.”

The spokesperson said the BB Gulf partnership would deliver multiple benefits, including improved championship sightlines, premium new water hazards, fresh locally bred seafood for clubhouse dining, and a long-term tartare-backed funding stream.

Barnacle Bill has welcomed the partnership and is reportedly developing a premium pond-to-plate dining experience for the site, allowing golfers and visitors to enjoy fresh fish, chips and custom tartare sauce while overlooking the former tree canopy.

Early concept plans are also understood to include branded aquaculture precincts, seafood-themed corporate golf packages, and a signature clubhouse dining experience known as The 19th Hole and Sole.

Supporters say the plan is a bold example of South Australian innovation, bringing together sport, hospitality, aquaculture and executive overreach in one seamless vision.

Critics have described the proposal as absurd. The Government has responded by noting that, once the LIV Golf money dries up, council has been sidelined, hundreds of trees are marked for removal, and the gulf itself has been rebranded, a Barnacle Bill-funded fish pond rollout is really just the next logical step.

A neat project I was involved with 27 years ago.

https://no.finder.net.au/terra_rebuild_v3/

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TLDR:

The online terra_nova multi-media project (created in 1999) by the art collective known as nervous_objects, has had a major upgrade to now be mobile phone and modern browser compatible. It contains a real-time wind driven media engine consisting of a range of images and audio collected from Pekina near Orrorro in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

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nervous_objects first came together after meeting at the 1997 ANAT National Summer School in Hobart, an intensive three-week programme focused on internet design and web authoring at the University of Tasmania's Institute of the Arts. Drawn from different parts of Australia and different artistic backgrounds, the group continued working together after the summer school, encouraged by Amanda McDonald Crowley, then director of ANAT. What followed was an early experiment in networked artistic collaboration - one that moved across distance, code, sound, image and live exchange, and eventually found form in projects such as terra_nova.

terra_nova is a wind-driven media engine developed by the artist collective known as nervous_objects across a number of locations including Melbourne, Adelaide, Pekina, and New York. Planned in Melbourne, assembled in Adelaide, and realised in situ at Pekina, with remote participation from Anne in New York, the project was presented live from Pekina via a 33.3kbps analogue telephone modem from 24-31 January 1999.

Using live weather data from the original site - an old stone dance hall at Pekina in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia - it animates a grid of 288 cells, each containing a fragment of recovered media: photographs, video, sound, and debris from the early web. The original project was powered by a weather station installed at Pekina; the rebuilt version now draws from a weather API fixed to the same coordinates. The source has changed, but the signal remains.

Wind speed, direction, and intensity determine the behaviour of the grid: which cells are active, how they move, and how the system unfolds over time. Nothing is arranged for the viewer. The work is continuous, unstable, and always in ready motion.

Over a 4 month period in early 2026, the terra_nova project archive was rebuilt through a process that nervous_objects have described previously as data archaeology, and has been reassembled here in accordance with the principles of the original project. What was once Ruin has now been reassembled as Shed: a structure shaped by the project's engagement with Baudrillard's notion of brokenness, from which the project's original shed/ruin metaphor emerged.

Working slowly and deliberately, the artists moved through abandoned directories, broken pages, and forgotten online spaces, collecting displaced cultural remnants: images severed from context, audio without attribution, and video surviving long after its original form had decayed.

All media files have been converted to modern formats (no longer requiring outdated browser plugins), and all HTML and Javascript code has been rewritten to comply with modern browser standards (such as rebuilding the heart of the live real-time Pekina Wind Engine and removing outdated pop up windows with compliant lightbox code).

The project was supported by a 'new media arts - development' grant provided by the Australia Council for the Arts. terra_nova combined physical travel, environmental input, networked exchange, and media recovery into a work shaped as much by weather and distance as by authorship. What remains is the sediment of an earlier internet: pre-platform, pre-feed, pre-social networks, pre-mobile phone, thoughtfully massaged into a seamless surface of which defines our contemporary web space.