Lord Mayor - Sister Cities
Channel: City of Adelaide
Date: 2015-11-23

Lord Mayor Martin Haese discusses the opportunity for the City of Adelaide to become a world class international city.

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Transcript:

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Hi everyone, Martin Haese, Lord Mayor City of Adelaide. Ni hao, Konichiwa, Selamat Petang.

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I'm here to speak to you about an
important topic: sister city relations of

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which we have five... five very important some long-standing relations right across the world.

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Christchurch, New Zealand. Austin, Texas. Georgetown, Penang. Qingdao, China. And Himeji in Japan.

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And we work with all of them - it's important!

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Last week we invited representatives
from the five communities of those five sister cities

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into Town Hall to have a
great discussion about how we can

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strengthen and become even closer to our sister cities across the world. And many

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good ideas came from this discussion. It
was wonderful to hear the social, the

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cultural and even the commercial
opportunities which can emerge as a

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result of the City of Adelaide working
very closely with its cultural

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communities on the ground in South
Australia and also working directly with

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our sister city relations overseas. Start
of the great conversation loads of

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opportunity! I think the key messages
though, is that Adelaide has a wonderful

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opportunity to become an international
city on the world stage. And our sister cities

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are the conduit by which we
can achieve it.

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We welcome your ideas too. So if you've
got some ideas how we can strengthen

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even further

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our sister city relations, please contact
me on my office directly... love to hear

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from you. Thank you.