SURPRISING SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- Wine State: South Australia is a well known food and wine centre
- Nature: the perfect destination to explore natural habitats and wildlife
- Water Views: the beaches stretch for miles and the Murray River creates a tourist hotspot throughout the state
- Outback: in South Australia the outback is right out back
You couldn't ask for greater diversity. Catch a fish or catch a wave, watch a game, or watch an opera, bike it, hike it or take to the hills and lose yourself in the beauty that is South Australia.
You’ll be surprised at how much there is to see and do. Within 20 minutes’ drive of Adelaide, you can be barefoot on a beach or winding your way along a narrow road in the hills.
Venture a little further and you’re boating on the River Murray, sampling wine with a vigneron, fraternising with wildlife, or heading into the ancient Outback.
This is a place less travelled, less spoilt and very special.
For more information go to www.southaustralia.com.
Doing business in SA
It’s a clever State too – a centre of leading edge technology and advanced manufacturing, information technology, communications, medicine, science and defence. There are many reasons why South Australia is the best State in Australia to do business.
According to KPMG, 2008, Adelaide is Australia's most cost-competitive city for business and the third most cost-competitive in the world in its population category.
For the past three years, The Economist Business Unit’s Business Travel index has rated Adelaide top of the list of Australian cities favoured by international business travellers.
Standard & Poor's in 2005 gave South Australia a Triple A credit rating for its “low net debt, revenue growth and commitment to a prudent level of spending over the next two to three years”.
South Australia is a leader in providing defence hardware and technology for the nation.
South Australia is widely acclaimed as an innovative business centre with strong investment in research and development.
The State is an advanced base for manufacturing, technology and research.
$44.8 billion in value of major projects are either in progress or proposed.
Source: Department of Trade and Economic Development - www.southaustralia.biz
CPA Australia Breakfast
As part of my role at CPA Australia I attend many breakfast events throughout the year, at a variety of different venues across Adelaide. Without exception however, the ACC always delivers excellent food and your staff are the most professional of any venue I have attended. I appreciate the fact that there is an Event Floor Manager assigned to each event who is easy to contact and always very prompt and obliging when actioning my requests - other venues do not offer this level of service.