South Australian election campaign is Adelaide’s best-kept secret

Adelaide likes to think of herself as a well-kept secret; a highly liveable city surrounded by valuable parkland and still affordable suburbs with some of Australia’s best food and wine. Transforming itself every March from a somewhat smug cosmopolitan provincial town into a mecca of frenzied cultural activity that a few locals still call Radelaide, where every “Catcat”* and “Man Who Sings the Same Song Over and Over for an Hour”* descends on the East End, where South Korean theater troupes perform Chekhov at the Festival Theatre, African voice actors dazzle the Botanical Park for WOMAD and – normally – Booker Prize winners battle the heat. city Pioneer Women’s Gardens for Writers’ Week.