Labor MP for Adelaide, Lucy Hood, is attempting to deflect attention from the State Government's recent attacks on your Park Lands, by claiming State credit for actions taken before she was born.
Highlighting decades-old Park restorations, while failing to acknowledge any recent Park Lands attacks has been described by the Deputy Lord Mayor as “Olympic-level gymnastics”.
Discover the vibrant events happening in your picturesque Adelaide Park Lands from the end of June to the end of July 2024. From immersive art installations and guided nature walks to cultural celebrations and fitness activities, plus July’s Illuminate Adelaide highlights, there's something to entice you!
A forty-year-old law to promote motor sport is being used to thwart Park Lands planning, landscaping and public access to your Open, Green, Public spaces.
It’s just one of several laws that fail to protect your Park Lands.
Advice from the United Nations “Habitat” program about the value of Open, Green, Public spaces, and the multiple benefits of planting and maintaining urban forests, has demonstrated the folly of recent State Government tree felling in your Park Lands.
The London-based National Park City Foundation has "encouraged" the South Australian Government to "properly protect" Adelaide's "nature and recreation spaces."
The State Government has been warned that many people have “higher expectations” now that Adelaide has been declared a “National Park City.”.
SA's new Planning Minister Josh Teague is about to make the biggest decision in the 184-year history of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Mr Teague will decide the fate of riverbank Park Lands totalling 35 times the size of Adelaide Oval, but all public feedback, and advice delivered to him will be secret until after he’s made his decision.
It's been more than 12 years since your Adelaide Park Lands were nominated for State Heritage listing.
During that time, attacks on Open Green Public Park Lands have continued relentlessly, while progress on Heritage listing has stalled.
Now that 12-year delay is about to come to a head in State Parliament, with a draft law to formally recognise your Adelaide Park Lands as a State Heritage Area.
Adelaide's losing mature trees at an alarming rate. As many as 75,000 trees are disappearing each year across the metropolitan area. Premier Steven Marshall has threatened hundreds more of them to build a proposed stadium in Helen Mayo Park. A campaign launch by the National Trust next Wednesday, December 1, will showcase how people power can help reverse this trend.
The Labor and Liberal parties have combined in the Upper House of State Parliament to torpedo a law that would have given protection to your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.
Treasurer Rob Lucas described the draft legislation as “evilness” while Labor’s deputy leader Claire Scriven wanted to avoid future parliamentary debates about proposed Park Lands attacks.
