June 2026: Friends, I am taking a break to rethink EVERYTHING. I have been disturbed by the way our State Government is governing and it's severed my deep connection to and trust in our elected representatives. Episode 434 explains this more thoroughly. Stay strong, keep being creative and connected to each other. Steve Davis
Episode 434: Something Has Broken: SA Politics, the Park Lands, and the Politics of Distraction

434 – Something Has Broken: SA Politics, the Park Lands, and the Politics of Distraction

In a raw and unusually personal episode, Steve Davis admits something has broken in his connection to SA’s government and sits down with former geopolitics lecturer David Olney to make sense of the spin, the Park Lands, the politics of distraction, and whether there’s still a strand worth holding onto. This is not a typical Adelaide Show episode. For the first time in 434 instalments, Steve Davis opens by confessing he’s not sure how many more episodes there will be because something has broken in him. Not in South Australia’s people, whom he loves unreservedly, but in his trust of the state’s governance. What follows is one of the most honest conversations the show has ever hosted. There is no SA Drink of the Week this episode. The mood didn’t call for it. In the Musical Pilgrimage, Steve closes with Australia Day by Steve Davis & The Virtuosos, a song

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