Remember Tarrkarri? The Premier wishes you didn’t, writes Mike Smithson in the first of his weekly insights into how the halls of power operate.

It’s rapidly approaching the Premier’s official ‘political basking’ season.

He’s preparing for the public relations power and glory of LIV Golf, AFL Gather Round and various festivals.

“Everywhere-Mali” will be almost everywhere over the next weeks and months, except for one prominent Adelaide landmark.

Peter Malinauskas will continue to bypass a valuable piece of dirt at Lot Fourteen on North Terrace where the old Royal Adelaide Hospital’s East Wing once stood.

It’s been earmarked for a world-class Aboriginal arts and cultural centre known as Tarrkarri.

A render of Lot Fourteen including Tarrkarri posted to LinkedIn.

As InDaily has reported, it would house tens of thousands of Indigenous art treasures and artifacts currently locked away in storage.

Let me be brutally honest.

It isn’t going to happen, but the Premier doesn’t have the courage, or perhaps the folly, to officially knock it out of the park and finally put several interested and frustrated parties out of their misery.

Here’s another observation.

The sensitive notion of “shooting Bambi” in the lead up to the March 2026 state election is a path the Premier won’t be treading as it’s a potentially bad look, and our politically savvy leader doesn’t like........

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