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Monday 19 October 2026

North Adelaide Golf Course $55,000 contracts under fire

SA's Auditor-General found 14 North Adelaide Golf Course consultants, Greg Norman's firm included, started on contracts of exactly $55,000.

Bel McRae Monday 19 October 2026, open calendar6 min read

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Fourteen consultants, and every one of them started on a contract worth exactly $55,000. That number sits at the centre of South Australia's latest fight over the North Adelaide Golf Course, and it's heading for a vote in the upper house.

A fairway lined with tall gum trees and a sand bunker at the North Adelaide Golf Course in the Adelaide Park Lands — Photo: Michael Coghlan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0), cropped

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Bel McRae Monday 19 October 2026 at 11:15 am Adelaide, open calendar6 min read

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