BioBlitz: easy citizen science adventure: 30 Oct

BioBlitz: easy citizen science adventure:  30 Oct

Join thousands of fellow Australians around the country, in using your smart-phone to observe and record whatever life you can see or hear, in one of the rare precious bushland areas in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Join us with your smartphone on Sunday morning, 30 October, 10am to 12 noon, on the Wirrarninthi Environmental Trail within Park 23. We’ll help you record biodiversity as part of the Great Southern BioBlitz.

"Better connectivity" for Women's and Children's Hospital

"Better connectivity" for Women's and Children's Hospital

A review of possible sites for a new Women's and Children's Hospital has found that a site near the corner of West Terrace and North Terrace would be "relatively inexpensive" to acquire, and would offer significantly better connectivity with the broader biomedical, research and university precinct.

Meantime debate over the hospital site has gone national; with the Chair of the Australian Heritage Council advocating for Your Park Lands.

Check list of construction sites

Check list of construction sites

There’s been a lot of publicity in recent weeks about two controversial development proposals in your Open Green Public Park Lands.

However the proposed new Aquatic Centre in Park 2, and the proposed new Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Park 27 are only the latest examples of a decades-long trend of Park losses. In October 2022, work is well underway to build over Park Lands at four other sites.

Event to celebrate new skate park

Event to celebrate new skate park

A community event will help celebrate the success of the new skate park in Gladys Elphick Park / Narnungga (Park 25) – a month after it opened.

To mark the launch, the City of Adelaide and On The Flip Side are hosting a free, all-ages Skate Daze event this Saturday, October 8. Prior to the day, APA’s Carla Caruso spoke to a few skateboarders about their views on the new facility.

Raining poems

Raining poems

Adelaide’s abundant rainfall this year has been good for one particular group: the crew behind the “Raining Poetry” project.

A team of postgraduate students has been busy stencilling some of your pathways with short poems, penned by talented, local writers. Like magic, the poetry becomes visible only when wet.

No Premier, WCH is not a binary choice

No Premier, WCH is not a binary choice

In announcing the State Government's latest proposed attack on Adelaide's heritage, Premier Peter Malinauskas claims that you (and State parliamentarians) must make a binary choice. He’s urging yes to a hospital, and NO to your heritage.

But he’s overlooked the best option: having both.

The State Government is drawing up legislation which, if passed, would allow a $3 billion new Women’s and Children’s Hospital to replace the Thebarton Police barracks and most of Kate Cocks Park in Park 27 of your Adelaide Park Lands.

Patrick's FOI probe on Aquatic Centre bungle

Patrick's FOI probe on Aquatic Centre bungle

Adelaide Lord Mayoral candidate Rex Patrick has stepped in to expose the bungled State Government process that now threatens dozens of mature trees in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Mr Patrick’s FOI request will reveal whether the State Government has given any consideration to the overwhelming public feedback to support Park Lands and support a brownfield site for a new Aquatic Centre.