David Elliott

RIDE2WORK DAY 15 OCTOBER 2025

It's one week until National Ride2Work Day, so with the weather becoming warmer and drier, it's the perfect time to get back on your bike.

Even replacing a few trips by car each with with a bike ride can have big benefits to your physical and mental health, and also helps reduce strain on our congested roads.

With travel times only getting worse in the car and petrol prices straining household budgets, spring is the perfect time to fall back in love with commuting by bicycle! 🚲🚲

Great to see another round of funding announced under the State Bicycle Fund, awarding $2 million to 9 councils across 18 projects.

Each one makes a difference to making our streets a little safer for more people to walk and cycle in their own neighbourhoods.

But $2 million is a very small amount when split across so many council areas, and is a major inhibitor to the change our communities are asking for. We need to see a greater funding commitment for active transport if we are to have any hope of addressing congestion, transport pollution and road trauma.

Join me at 4pm today, chatting with Nikolai Beilharlz at ABC Adelaide radio about these exciting new projects, and the importance of more investment.

Wishing a deservedly happy and quiet post-politics life to Deputy Premier Susan Close.

A giant of the left and an incredibly competent leader and minister, she leaves an incredible legacy as an advocate and reformer.

In 2024 I successfully moved to implement a subsidy for e-bikes, cargo bikes and bike storage facilities on private land.

Open to City of Adelaide residents and businesses, the new category in the Sustainability Incentives Scheme assisted the purchase of nearly 70 e-bikes from city businesses in it's first year, helping to reduce the number of people needing to drive in our congested city!

So cool to see the initiative being proudly promoted in Rundle Mall.

Good luck to the new council members, you'll need it ☺️

Love,

City of Adelaide's shortest-serving Deputy Lord Mayor

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the use of nuclear weapons to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Even as an ex-Defence member, nuclear weapons have never sat comfortably with me, and I spent my Air Force career in intelligence to minimise harm through accurate data and information.

That's why I supported reaffirming Adelaide's status as a nuclear free zone and calling for banning nuclear weapons.

Australia's defence and associated industries are important but not at the risk of escalating tensions using such indiscriminately destructive weapons. We need not repeat the tragedies of 1945.

Thank you Young Labor Left SA for your letter of support and for continuing your advocacy for a nuclear-free future 🌹