This week, InSider checks for clashes in the events calendar, rewinds to better days for hydrogen and outs a minister who doesn’t care where the money comes from.

An event of a scale just second to the Olympic Games could take over Adelaide next November, should Australia get its way.

ICYMI: Australia is bidding to host international climate change conference COP in Adelaide next year.

It’ll see tens of thousands of delegates from across the globe descend on the city to chat policy, problems and solutions in November 2026.

The state government is frothing to secure this event.

It’ll be the jewel in Premier Peter Malinauskas’ events policy crown should he lock it in, alongside the likes of LIV Golf, Gather Round, the Adelaide Fringe and ADL500.

Wait a minute… November… Isn’t there a certain very loud car race happening in the CBD then?

That’s right. COP would clash directly with one of Mali’s favourite events: the ADL500 – now called the bp Adelaide Grand Final.

“We have turned our minds to the relative incompatibility of the ADL500 and COP,” the Premier told a crowd at the Adelaide Economic Development Agency 2025 Business Summit this week.

“Different crowds…

“We’ve factored that in and Supercars have been very supportive of that.”

Whether the Supercars event moves months (yet again) is yet to be seen, but InSider agrees: the two events are “relatively........

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