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These seven candidates are vying for one vacant position on the Adelaide City Council, with ballot papers due to be mailed to city residents and businesses later this month. We’ve asked each candidate four key questions about your Adelaide Park Lands.

The City of Adelaide’s Biodiversity team and Rotary Adelaide Light came together on the last weekend of June, to complete a planting in Gladys Elphick Park / Narnungga (Park 25)

Hobbyists have been hunting for trash and treasure in the waterways of the Adelaide Park Lands.

‘Magnet fishing’ involves using a rope, with a strong magnet attached, to pull items to the surface.

Two media students from the University of Adelaide have created short films for the Adelaide Park Lands Association.

Allycia Dobson, 21, and Michael Genrich, 46, filmed, narrated and edited a video each, during internships with APA.

Olives were the central theme of our most recent Guided Walk last Sunday, June 20.

Thirty-five people – and one beagle – joined APA President Shane Sody for a meander through the ancient Olive Groves in Parks 7 and 8 (Kuntingga and Parngutilla) between lower North Adelaide and Gilberton.

The 2021 State Budget released on Tuesday 22 June contained funding for not one, but three attacks on your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.

A stadium, a new hospital and now even a new multi-storey car park would whittle away more of your Park 27, which has already been subjected to decades of erosion.

For Chris Harris, playing disc golf in the Adelaide Park Lands has turned his life around.

APA’s Loine Sweeney finds out why flying discs in Park 15 is inspiring Chris and so many others to try this growing new sport..

Today’s State Budget raises the threat level for Helen Mayo Park.

The Budget includes a commitment to spend $79 million over the next two years on planning and site works for a proposed stadium, that would, if built, effectively destroy this site - Helen Mayo Park in Park 27.

Fox sightings have been on the increase in Adelaide’s inner suburbs in recent weeks, according to local media reports.

However, the reverse appears to be true in the Adelaide Park Lands. But what should you do if you encounter a fox in the Adelaide Park Lands?

Any loss from your "Open Green Public" Park Lands to new development is to be avoided.

However, some cafes have made use of previously-abandoned heritage Park Lands buildings, finding ways to stay viable even during the notoriously quieter, cooler months.

Recent rains have re-established green groundcover at the new wetlands under construction in the southern part of Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16).

Many parts of your Adelaide Park Lands are named after famous people of decades past.

Greg Martin looks at the man behind the name "Lundie Gardens" in Park 21W off South Terrace.

Seven candidates vying for a single vacancy on the City Council are getting quizzed about their attitudes to YOUR Adelaide Park Lands.

Both major political parties seem to be doing their best to lose the marginal seat of Adelaide at the State election, due next March.

Neither Premier Steven Marshall, nor Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas appears to have done his homework to find out about the growing swell of public support for Adelaide's Open Green Public Park Lands.

There’s been an innovative use of the Adelaide Park Lands - as a theatre stage, with actors moving in and out of scenes, through the windows of a moving bus. “The Narrator” used the backdrop of several Parks and Squares to tell a “moving” story.

Adelaide has jumped up to third place in rankings of the world’s most liveable cities - surely a boost for Adelaide's new bid to become only the world's second "National Park City”.

Let's build upon the enviable world reputation of your Open Green Public spaces. "Love Your Park Lands" is part of Adelaide's answer to COVID, and a guide to the rest of the world in how to make a city liveable.

An initial startup meeting was held last Saturday, 5 June (World Environment Day) at this bitumen expanse within Bonython Park / Tulya wardlu (Park 27) earmarked for partial re-greening (and sometime in the future, perhaps, new beach volleyball courts).

After 12 months of operation, Disc Golf players say the public Disc Golf Course in King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15) has been a great success.