Bringing people together through stories, music and culture. A night to share, listen, learn and connect.

As part of Adelaide Climate Action Week, Our Country, Our Voices: First Nations Voices for Country is an evening celebrating the strength of First Nations voices through storytelling, music, spoken word and creative expression.

The event creates a welcoming space for First Nations people to share stories, experiences and connection to Country, while exploring climate change, caring for Country and our shared responsibility to create a more sustainable future. Through creativity and conversation, the evening invites people to listen, learn, connect and reflect on the important role we all play in caring for Country.

More than a showcase, this is an opportunity to inspire action, strengthen relationships and build a shared commitment to caring for Country. Together, we’ll celebrate First Nations voices, deepen understanding and explore how culture, community and collective action can create lasting impact for future generations.

Whether you’re performing, sharing a story or simply coming along to listen, we’d love you to join us for an inspiring evening of connection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Come together to celebrate culture, hear diverse voices, build new relationships and be part of conversations that inspire action and strengthen our collective care for Country.

If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person who wants to join the open mic night, has a story to share that fits in with the theme of the night, register your details here and we will get in touch with you soon. Click here to register.

Come join us at the end of the week for a great night out. Please pass on to your friends, networks and anyone you know so we can get a good crowd there on the night

Tickets To help make the event as accessible as possible, tickets are available on a pay what you feel basis. We simply ask you to contribute an amount that you feel is appropriate, affordable or reflects the value of the evening to you. Every contribution helps cover the costs of delivering this event and supports the creation of more community gatherings that celebrate First Nations voices, strengthen connections and inspire climate action.

We’re calling on local families, children and nature lovers to help discover, identify and record as many plant, animal and fungi species as possible in our local area.

It’s a great chance to get outdoors, learn about local biodiversity and contribute to important community science. This will allow us to monitor changes over time, particularly with the projected impacts of climate change.

Come along to see what amazing species we can find!

South Australia is getting close to achieving 100% net renewable electricity generation, one of the most remarkable energy transitions in the world. But electricity is only the beginning. Decarbonising heavy industry, manufacturing, freight, mining, agriculture and the built environment is the harder, messier challenge ahead. This forum brings together some of the senior leaders navigating that challenge for an afternoon of candid conversation. Forget the polished speeches, watch each speaker engaged in honest reflection: what’s working, what isn’t, where the real tensions lie, and what needs to happen next. Make Friday afternoon count, join local and national leaders in large scale energy and industry decarbonisation in good conversation, with cheese and wine. MC and Lead Facilitator Joanna Kay, Program Director, International, The Superpower Institute Confirmed Speakers (More to be announced) Lawrence Ben - Assistant Minister for Copper, Steel, Critical Metals and Minerals Paul Martyn, Chief Executive, Department for Energy and Mining Susan Jeanes - Chair, Heavy Industry Low Carbon Transition CRC and Chair, Additive Manufacturing CRC and Premier’s Climate Change Council Member Richie Merzian - CEO, Clean Energy Investor Group Nathan Blundell - Chief Development Officer, Windlab Dr Amanda Cahill - Founder, The Next Economy Ben Birch - Head of Strategy, Innovation and Growth, SA Power Networks How to register If you’ve received an invitation, please use the provided access code at registration. If you haven’t been provided an access code but would like to attend, a number of places are available through an Expression of Interest process. Select the Expression of Interest ticket type below to apply. Places are limited. This event is presented by Adelaide Climate Action Week in partnership with Windlab - Raising the bar on renewables.

Resilient by Nature: Creating Climate-Resilient Native Habitats

Green Adelaide will help you discover how to create a thriving habitat for Adelaide’s native wildlife right in your own backyard!

This hands-on workshop introduces the key principles of wildlife friendly gardening, helping you discover which local animals are in your area, what they need to thrive, and how to design a space that supports them.

By choosing native plants and a smart design, you aren’t just helping local wildlife - you’re building climate resilience right where you live. Native habitats cope better with harsh summers, use less water, and provide vital cooling islands for local fauna. It’s a win-win for you and nature!

You’ll also get the chance to get your hands dirty! Participants will have the opportunity to plant local species in The Precinct’s garden, gaining practical, real-world planting skills.

What we’ll cover:

An introduction to Adelaide’s native flora and why it matters.

How to identify and protect the wildlife already visiting you.

Practical tips for a nature-rich, climate resilient garden.

Tips about nest boxes and other habitat features.

Simple ways to get started and make an immediate impact.

Come along, get inspired, and transform your backyard into a thriving, resilient haven for local wildlife!

Plus, all participants will take home their own native plant to kickstart their backyard habitat.

Afternoon tea provided.

To think about the future of climate, we may need roots, stars and a sixth sense.

This conversation brings together ecology, intuition and space-thinking to explore how we might listen more deeply, imagine more bravely and act with greater care.

On the couch in conversation with Moira Were AM will be Dr Sabine Dittmann, Ben Adams and Tony Shillitoe with an eye to the future.

Dr Sabine Dittmann is an internationally recognised marine ecologist. Her distinguished career has taken her to wetlands and tropical locations. She continues to provide advice to the Federal Government on biodiversity, Sabine will bring her deep appreciation of systems and how everything is connected from the moon, to the rivers and the ocean to this challenging conversation.

Ben Adams will bring his super coaching powers to this conversation from his experience in AI, cyber, space, and other advanced technology sectors. Ben believes deeply that the most important work happens when purpose-led people from across an entire system come together — not to protect their corner, but to see the whole picture.

Tony Shillitoe is a critically acclaimed author of scifi, fantasy, historical fiction and young adult novels who travels through time and space for inspiration and sources of truth. Retired, a reformed teacher of English and a student of contemporary politics, Tony believes that our future as a species lies in our ability to collaboratively understand and value our planet and all life on it because all life is utterly dependent on the planet’s health.

Moira Were AM has been hosting community conversations for decades on topics that help us reflect on the past, draw wisdom into our present choices and decisions to propel us forward to be good ancestors rather than prophets of doom. She is currently Mayor, City of Onkaparinga and hosting these conversations as a private citizen. This is not a program or service of City of Onkaparinga.

This conversation is the third and final one in this series of Conversations for the Common Good and part of Adelaide Climate Action Week.

Join Divers for Climate during Adelaide Climate Week for a national online briefing exploring the ongoing impacts of South Australia’s harmful algal bloom and what it means for the future of our marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

More than a year on from the unprecedented algal bloom, we’re bringing together scientists, dive operators, and ocean advocates once again to share the latest updates from the frontlines. We’ll discuss the continuing ecological impacts, including the concerning absence of Whyalla’s iconic giant cuttlefish aggregation, and explore what these changes mean for marine life, tourism, and the communities that depend on healthy oceans.

Event Details

Date/Time: Thursday 30th July, 5;30pm AEST Location: Online (link provided upon registration) Who should attend: Divers, snorkellers, freedivers, marine tourism professionals, ocean lovers, and anyone passionate about protecting Australia’s marine environment.

Our speakers will share:

The latest update on South Australia’s harmful algal bloom and recovery efforts.

First-hand experiences from those living and working on the coast.

The impacts on Whyalla’s world-famous giant cuttlefish aggregation and the regional community.

How the dive community can support.

The session will conclude with an interactive community discussion, providing an opportunity to ask questions, connect with others, and explore meaningful actions we can take together. List of speakers coming soon!

Whether you joined us last year or are learning about this issue for the first time, we’d love to have you as part of the conversation.

See you online!

For any questions, contact us via Instagram or at info@diversforclimate.com.

A community led day connecting First Nations people through conversation to inspire climate action, community impact and caring for Country.

Led by First Nations voices, the day brings community together to explore climate change, the environment, caring for Country and the role First Nations knowledge, leadership and practices play in creating positive change. Through workshops, discussions and collaborative conversations, participants will connect, share ideas, learn from one another and identify practical actions that create lasting impact for Country and community.

Guided by the themes of Connection. Action. Impact. Caring for Country, the day is designed to strengthen relationships, inspire collaboration and support community led responses to climate change. Participants will have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful discussions, share experiences, build new relationships and help shape ongoing priorities for climate action and caring for Country.

More than a one day gathering, this is the beginning of an ongoing journey of connection, conversation and collective action. Our aim is for everyone to leave with new ideas, stronger relationships and a shared commitment to continue the conversation, care for Country and create lasting community impact.

Join us at the Yitpi Yartapuultiku Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Port Adelaide, on 30 July 2026, and be part of a day of connection, collaboration and action.

Delicious catering from a First Nations business will be available throughout the day.

Tickets are available on a pay what you can basis. We invite you to contribute an amount that feels right for you. If you aren’t able to pay much or anything at all thats ok, we still want you to be a part of the day. Every contribution helps cover the costs of the event and supports future gatherings, ensuring these important conversations continue and more opportunities are created for First Nations communities to connect, share and take action together.

We hope you are able to join us for an exciting day together. Book your tickets and feel free to pass on to your networks and community.

What does climate change mean for South Australia — and for you?

From hotter days and changing rainfall patterns to more frequent extreme weather, these changes are already shaping how we live, work and plan for the future. What might this mean for you?

Join a free public webinar hosted by the Department for Environment and Water to unpack some of the key findings from South Australia’s first Statewide Climate Change Risk and Opportunity Assessment.

As South Australia’s first statewide assessment, this work provides an important foundation for understanding risks and opportunities associated with our changing climate to support better planning for our future.

Click on the following link to explore the risk assessment reports: Statewide Climate Change Risk and Opportunity Assessment report.

Who pays? What gets funded? Who benefits? and who decides?

Trillions of dollars are now being mobilised globally for climate action, yet many of the communities facing the greatest risks struggle to access finance. From Pacific Island nations to remote Aboriginal communities and regional Australia, climate resilience raises profound questions about equity, justice and shared prosperity.

South Australia has an opportunity not only to accelerate its own transition, but to help demonstrate how climate finance can deliver benefits for people and places often left behind.

Join influential leaders from finance, philanthropy, and academia for a panel conversation on the future of climate finance.

Our speaker lineup features leading voices driving climate action and investment, including Charles Yu, Regional Lead – Sustainable Finance, Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme and Dr Amanda Cahill, Founder of The Next Economy with more speakers to be announced.

This forum offers an exceptional opportunity to hear from experts, engage with peers across sectors, and build connections to accelerate climate action.

What to expect

Gain practical insights into the evolving climate finance landscape across Australia and the Pacific.

Hear diverse perspectives from leaders working across investment, government, philanthropy and the climate sector.

Build new relationships with decision-makers, practitioners and changemakers committed to financing climate solutions.

Ask the questions that will drive key insights to shape an ACAW Communiqué to the COP31 Taskforce.

Whether you’re an investor, policymaker, business leader, researcher, philanthropist, community advocate or interested citizen, this forum is an opportunity to be part of the conversation shaping how South Australia finances a climate-ready future.

We are proud to partner with venue host Adelaide University, whose valued support helped bring this flagship event to life.

To register as an attendee select the General Admission ticket option.

We live in a world of urgency, crises and finding immediate solutions. But many of the challenges we face aren’t technical, they are relational and systemic. They live in how we meet each other and how we perceive the living systems we’re part of and are in dynamic movement together.

In this Warm Data Lab*, you are invited to step out of fixing, ‘faster’, and fragmentation, into a space for collective conversation, creating conditions of the soil for new ideas and perceptions.

We won’t have panels, presentations or experts. There aren’t going to be five top actions you can take right now.

​​Just story-sharing across the many contexts that shape real life. And in this space of being together, we cultivate different conditions that may just allow some new insight or noticing.

​This is an invitation to slow down, arrive exactly as you are, with all your messy complexity, and be in the stories together. What happens if we shift the conditions that allow for possibility to emerge?

We are also hosting an event on Thursday 30th July 6.30-9pm for those unable to make this time.

Warm Data Labs were created by Nora Bateson as an approach for noticing and exploring complexity, by moving through it together.

In a Warm Data Lab, people share stories across the many contexts that shape their lives. The intention isn’t to achieve certain outcomes or solve problems, but because something often becomes visible in that crossing of perspectives that isn’t visible anywhere else. Its found in the gaps, the contradictions, the unexpected resonances between very different lives and experiences.

These labs can feel unfamiliar. As the process is both deeply familiar, and yet it doesn’t resolve to comfort or clarity. It is important to note that this is not a flaw in the design.

Warm Data itself is Nora Bateson’s term for information that is ‘alive’ and in movement. Information that keeps its context intact, the relationships, conditions and entanglements that give it meaning. Where most data strips that away, noticing warm data reveals these independencies and give us a deeper appreciation of our entanglement.

For Adelaide Climate Action Week join Tansy Curtin, Assistant Director in conversation with Dr Zoe Freney, artist, writer and academic as they discuss the intertwined relationship of artists and the environment.

For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au

This talk is not ticketed, please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

You’ve just been handed the top job on Earth. Your mandate: keep global warming within the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 - 2°C, protect nature, keep the economy strong, and make sure the transition is fair to everyone. No pressure.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll take the controls of En-ROADS: the world-renowned climate simulator built by MIT Sloan and Climate Interactive, used by governments, business leaders, and negotiators around the world. Pull the real levers of change: energy prices, renewables, transport, buildings, land use, population, economic growth, and watch the global temperature respond in real time.

Working in small teams, you’ll debate trade-offs, test your instincts against hard system dynamics, and discover which solutions actually move the needle, and which popular ideas barely shift the dial. Expect some surprises. Almost everyone’s first plan misses the mark, and that’s exactly where the learning starts.

Come ready to argue, experiment, and think like a planetary leader. You’ll leave with a genuine understanding of what it takes to solve climate change, and a sense of what’s truly possible.

No science background needed — just curiosity and a willingness to make some big decisions.

Agenda 1 The mission: You are now the CEO of Earth. You need to manage four goals: climate, nature, economy, and social justice.

2 Meet the simulator Live demo of En-ROADS. See how it responds and establish the baseline: where we’re heading under current policy, what you can do, and how you can see what was impacted.

3 Team huddle Groups of 3–5 form. Before touching the sim, each team debates and sketches a strategy on paper: what will they prioritise, and what will they trade off?

4 Take the controls Teams access the simulation and build their plan, testing levers against the four goals.

5 Report back Each team shares their headline result again one or more of the four goals e.g. final temperature, the economy, nature and social justice as well as one surprising thing they learned.

6 Debrief What actually worked, common traps, and how this maps to real-world action. Closing: what are we taking away?