34-742: The Australian Space Agency is an agency of the Australian Government responsible for the development of Australia's commercial aerospace industry , coordinating domestic space activities, identifying opportunities and facilitating international engagement that includes Australian stakeholders. Its headquarters, opened in February 2020, are located in Lot Fourteen in Adelaide , the capital of South Australia . The Australian Space Discovery Centre , which features exhibits and public information sessions,
68-526: A committee of a number of prominent settlers after themselves, after early directors of the South Australian Company , after Colonisation Commissioners of South Australia (appointed by the British government to oversee implementation of the acts that established the colony), and after various notables involved in the establishment of the colony. The Street Naming Committee comprised: All members of
102-637: A rover that will be sent to the moon by 2026. In March 2022, the ASA and the University of Adelaide stated that they would collaborate on Mars exploration. The agency has, beginning 2023, a working relationship with Space Centre Australia , which aims to develop launch facilities in Cape York Peninsula . In November 2022 the agency partnered with Fugro to open the Fugro SpAARC spacecraft control centre. SpAARC
136-497: A seat in the federal cabinet and leading its respective portfolio area: There are 171 principal entities other than the cabinet departments. These government agencies are classified by the Australian Government Organisations Register as either a non-corporate Commonwealth entity, a corporate Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth company. On 18 September 2013 an Administrative Arrangements Order
170-625: A sovereign-owned agency, if not with sovereign launch facilities in the short term, was being made by think tanks such as Australian Strategic Policy Institute . On 25 September 2017, at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide , Senator Simon Birmingham announced that the Australian Government intended to create a national space agency following an expert reference group investigation led by Megan Clark , former chief executive of CSIRO . As part of
204-540: Is also located on site. As of 2008, Australia was the only OECD country without a space agency other than Iceland , with the preceding National Space Program and Australian Space Office (ASO) having been disbanded by the federal government in 1996. A government report from the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Economics noted that Australia was "missing out on opportunities" and recommended that an agency immediately be developed. In 2009,
238-780: Is known as "Mad March", due to the large number of other cultural festivities at the same time, including the Adelaide 500 and WOMADelaide . North Terrace is considered Adelaide's "cultural boulevard" because it is home to the State Library of South Australia , the South Australian Museum , the Migration Museum , the Art Gallery of South Australia , the University of Adelaide , the city campus of University of South Australia , and several smaller galleries. Lonely Planet labelled Adelaide "Australia's live music city", and
272-565: Is located in Perth , Australia. The Australian Space Agency is located in the McEwin Building on Lot Fourteen , a technology hub in Adelaide city centre . The Australian Space Discovery Centre is co-located with the agency. A new sculpture by Sundari Carmody, entitled One: all that we can see , was unveiled in June 2022. This is a 4 m (13 ft)-wide steel tubular ring, with LED lighting at
306-873: The Art Gallery of South Australia , the State Library of South Australia , the South Australian Museum , the Migration Museum , the Adelaide Botanic Garden , the University of Adelaide and the "CityEast" campus of the UniSA The population was 18,202 in the 2021 census , 41 percent born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 15.7%, India 3.7%, England 3.6%, Malaysia 3.6%, and Hong Kong 2.7%. 49.1% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 17.8%, Cantonese 4.2%, Vietnamese 2%, Hindi 1.5%, and Korean 1.5%. The most common response for religion in Adelaide
340-578: The Australian Government's 2018 budget announcement, AU$ 26 million in seed funding over four years from 2018 was included to establish the Australian Space Agency, with a further AU$ 15 million for international space investment starting from 2019. The budget was criticised for being inadequate by private Australian space companies including Delta-V and Gilmour Space Technologies , and space archaeologist Alice Gorman noted that low-budget attempts at starting an Australian space agency had failed in
374-493: The Kaurna language to each place, was mostly completed in 2003, and the renaming of 39 sites finalised and endorsed by the council in 2012. The City of Adelaide Council has defined a number of neighbourhood precincts in the city centre, each with a character of their own: In addition to these, the north-eastern side of North Terrace is often referred to as the "North Terrace cultural precinct" or "cultural boulevard", and includes
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#1732856155365408-503: The Park Lands around the whole city centre). The residential population was 18,202 in the 2021 census , with a local worker population of 130,404 . Adelaide city centre was planned in 1837 on a greenfield site following a grid layout , with streets running at right angles to each other. It covers an area of 4.33 square kilometres (1.67 square miles) and is surrounded by 6.68 square kilometres (2.58 square miles) of park lands. Within
442-466: The River Torrens ( Karrawiri Pari ), which flows through Adelaide. Adelaide was not as badly affected by the 1860s economic depression in Australia as other gold rush cities like Sydney and Melbourne , allowing it to prosper. Historian F.W. Crowley noted that the city was full of elite upper-class citizens which provided a stark contrast to the grinding poverty of the labour areas and slums outside
476-535: The federal parliament , appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister . As of December 2023, there are 1,334 government entities reportable to the Australian Government Organisations Register. This includes: Principal entities are Australian Government entities that are defined in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2011 as either a: The Australian Government comprises 20 portfolio departments, each representing
510-855: The Space Policy Unit funded the Australian Space Research Program over three years. It led to an accessible Landsat satellite imagery archive and the development and testing of a scramjet launcher. On 16 September 2016, Andrea Boyd, an Australian working as a flight operations engineer for the International Space Station (ISS) in Cologne , Germany, delivered an address at the Global Access Partners Summit in Parliament House, Sydney , urging Australia to grasp
544-456: The agency is titled the Head. List of Australian Government entities [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This list of Australian Government entities includes ministerial departments, principal entities, secondary entities, and other entities, which are grouped into a number of areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by one or more government ministers who are members of
578-592: The central Grote and Wakefield which are extra-wide, 132 feet (40 m), along with the surrounding four terraces. In the south half of the city, in several places the Adelaide City Council has constructed wide footpaths and road markings to restrict traffic to a lesser number of lanes than the full width of the road could support. The street pairs, design widths, and town acres in Light's Vision are illustrated in this diagram: The streets and squares were named by
612-456: The centre of the city, and Hindmarsh , Light , Hurtle and Whitmore Squares in the centres of each of the four quadrants of the Adelaide city centre. These squares occupy 32 of the 700 numbered town acre allotments on Light's plan. All east–west roads change their names as they cross King William Street, except for North and South terraces. They also alternate between being wide and narrow, 99 and 66 feet (30 and 20 m), except for
646-402: The centre. Surrounding this central business district are a large number of medium to low density apartments , townhouses and detached houses which make up the residential portion of the city centre. The layout of Adelaide, sometimes referred to as "Light's Vision", features a cardinal direction grid pattern of wide streets and terraces and five large public squares: Victoria Square in
680-406: The city and North Adelaide, as well as the surrounding parklands, were the result of the work of Colonel William Light (1786–1839), who was the first Surveyor General of South Australia . The area where the Adelaide city centre now exists was once known as "Tarndanya", the Kaurna word for as "male red kangaroo rock", which was the name used for an area along the south bank of what is now known as
714-583: The city are five parks: Victoria Square in the exact centre and four other, smaller parks. Names for elements of the city centre are as follows: Before the British colonisation of South Australia , the Adelaide Plains , on which Adelaide was built, were home to the Kaurna group of Aboriginal Australians . The colony of South Australia was established in 1836 at Glenelg , and the city itself established in 1837. The location and characteristic grid layout of
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#1732856155365748-533: The commercial opportunities of the new space market and protect its national sovereignty by establishing a national space agency. In response, a taskforce was gathered, which led to the establishment of the Expert Reference Group, co-funded by the federal Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Chaired by former head of CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark , it gathered recommendations from aerospace experts including Professor Russell Boyce, Professor Steven Freeland,
782-541: The committee (except Stephens) had one or more of the streets and squares in the Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide named after themselves. Brown Street, named for John Brown, was subsequently subsumed as a continuation of Morphett Street in 1967. In the same year, Hanson Street, named for Richard Hanson , was subsumed as a continuation of Pulteney Street . The squares were named after: The east–west streets named on 22 December 1836 were: Most of these people did not reside in or visit South Australia. The naming of
816-640: The election of the Turnbull government , the Department of the Environment was renamed, with effect from 19 July 2016: Some departments were renamed, with effect from 20 December 2017: Following the election of the Morrison government , five departments were renamed, with effect from 29 May 2019: The number of departments were cut from 18 to 14, with effect from 1 February 2020: The new Albanese Government made
850-567: The following modifications and increased the number of departments to 16, with effect from 1 July 2022: Adelaide city centre Adelaide city centre ( Kaurna : Tarndanya ) is the inner city locality of Greater Adelaide , the capital city of South Australia . It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide local government area (which also includes North Adelaide and from
884-446: The inner city ring. Due to its historic wealth during the 20th century, the city retains a notable portion of Victorian architecture. Adelaide is separated from its greater metropolitan area by a ring of public parklands on all sides. The so-called "square mile" within the park lands is defined by a small area of high rise office and apartment buildings in the centre north, around King William Street , which runs north-to-south through
918-415: The past. On 14 May 2018, Senator Michaelia Cash officially announced the launch of the Australian Space Agency, identifying 1 July 2018 as the commencement date of the agency, with Megan Clark as the inaugural head of the agency for at least the first year. Prime Minister Scott Morrison later announced that Adelaide would become home to the Australian Space Agency. It would be located at Lot Fourteen ,
952-755: The seat has been held by Lucy Hood of the Labor party. Adelaide's cultural and entertainment precincts/venues are generally concentrated in the city centre, including the Convention Centre ; the Adelaide Oval is just north of the Torrens within the parklands and easily accessible from the city. Most of the events relating to the Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Fringe are held within Adelaide's city centre and surrounding parklands during February and March. This time
986-455: The site of the former Royal Adelaide Hospital , near the north-eastern corner of Adelaide city centre , in 2019. The agency opened its office on 19 February 2020. It aims to triple the size of the Australian space industry and create 20,000 new jobs by 2030. On 13 October 2021, the Australian Government announced an agreement with NASA whereby Australian researchers and scientists would build
1020-487: The space administrator Dr David Williams and Dr Jason Held, founder of Saber Astronautics . It recommended the creation of a commercially focused Australian space agency and delivered its report to the Australian Government in August 2017. By 2017, Australian facilities were playing a critical role in 40 space missions of other nations, from deep space explorers, to Mars rovers, to astronomical space observatories. The case for
1054-415: The streets was completed on 23 May 1837 and gazetted on 3 June. East–west streets: North–south streets: The Adelaide City Council began the process of dual naming all of the city squares, each of the parks making up the parklands which surround the city centre and North Adelaide , and other sites of significance to the Kaurna people in 1997. The naming process, which assigned an extra name in
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1088-559: The top. The work was commissioned by Lot Fourteen, and is located in front of the Australian Space Discovery Centre. The Agency has six primary responsibilities: The Australian Space Agency differentiates itself from other national space programs in its stated focus on private development and businesses rather than state driven operations (contrasting with NASA and the European Space Agency ). The leader of
1122-683: Was " No Religion " at 52.9% of the population. At federal level, Adelaide is within the Division of Adelaide , a marginal seat which historically has alternated between the Liberal and Labor parties. It has been held since 2019 by Steve Georganas of the Labor party. In the South Australian House of Assembly , Adelaide is within the Electoral district of Adelaide . Since the March 2022 state election,
1156-631: Was issued by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister Tony Abbott which replaced the previous Order of 14 September 2010 issued by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Gillard government . The Order formed or re-confirmed government departments, as follows: Following the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister, three departments were renamed, with effect from 21 September 2015: Following
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