The hashtag #ProtectParksPete will soon be trending on social media. If you Love Your Park Lands, help us spread this hashtag, to bring it to the notice of the Premier, Peter Malinauskas as he prepares plans to slash more trees.
The Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has a vision: that your Park Lands must be profit centres, and that therefore Open, Green, Public land (as well as trees and biodiversity) must be subservient, or sacrificed to money-making imperatives, such as LIV golf.
There's uncertainty about the future of the three North Adelaide Golf Courses, on Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands) and the 85 species identified so far amongst the biodiversity of that Park.
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The Premier, Peter Malinauskas is remaining tight-lipped about how your Adelaide Park Lands would be affected by proposals to "re-develop" the golf courses in Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1).
Visitors to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) have been expressing surprise at the extent of new paved roadways, laid over what were previously dirt tracks.
Although the freshly-laid bitumen will last for decades, it has been laid for a very temporary purpose: to prop up a taxpayer-subsidised carbon emission festival for only four days per year, and only until 2026.
After more than a year’s gestation, the little sister to the Victoria Park wetlands has now been born, complete with newly-established reed beds, widened creek line, and trails.
Park Ambassador Peter Lumb and photographer Lyndon Stacy have inspected the finished waterway and mini-wetlands in Blue Gum Park / Kurangga (Park 20).
The State Opposition and the Greens are preparing to jointly demand a Select Committee of State Parliament to investigate the Government's "unprecedented" grab for your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.
The State Government has U-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Park Lands, and has launched attacks on Park Lands for four separate projects each of which could be built on vacant brownfield sites.
When stunning, filmic images of horses kept popping up on our social media feed, we imagined that they had been taken someplace afar.
It was only on closer inspection that we discovered that the beautiful pictures were actually taken in your Lefevre Park / Nantu Wama (Park 6).
We had to find out more about the photographer behind the awe-inspiring ‘Horses of North Adelaide’ account. Here’s what we uncovered…
The Labor Party has u-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Adelaide Park Lands, while flagging yet another Park Lands attack, the fourth in just seven months.
The latest proposed attack: new Police buildings; provides further evidence that there is very little Park Lands Love within State Government ranks.
The State Government has been challenged to bring forward its proposed restoration of your Park Lands near the old Adelaide Gaol.
The Adelaide Park Lands Association has welcomed an announcement by Health Minister Chris Picton that fences around parts of the old Gaol and Kate Cocks Park should be removed, and the Park landscaped.
However Mr Picton should be acting promptly to remove these fences and restore public access to these areas of your Park Lands.
Entries have been coming in, steadily, over the past few weeks for the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
The motto for our Art Prize competition is “Inspire”. We hope and expect that artists, inspired by your Adelaide Park Lands, will create artistic works that inspire others. But why do our sponsors and donors contribute?
We hope that you love your Park Lands, and we hope that you will help us spread the love. The greatest challenge that we face, every day, is trying to convince the State Government to Love Your Park Lands too.
Elected in March 2022 on a platform that included protecting Parks and tree canopy, the Labor State Government has since shown, by its actions, that it does not love your world-unique Adelaide Park Lands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We hope you love your Park Lands, and we hope that you will help us spread the love. The greatest challenge that we face, every day, is trying to convince the State Government to Love Your Park Lands too.
Fortunately, despite State Government planned attacks on three Park Lands sites, the Deputy Premier is now offering to talk to you about "greening our city".
The privatisation of the former Festival Plaza, within Tarntanya Wama (Park 26) is set to become even more obscene.
Greens MLC Robert Simms has accused the Labor and Liberal parties of being "in the pocket of the development class" while launching a scathing critique of Park Lands dealings between successive State Governments and billionaire property developer Lang Walker.
21 election candidates offered themselves up for public scrutiny last Wednesday evening, as the Adelaide Park Lands Association hosted a “candidates forum” at the North Adelaide Community Centre.
Lord Mayoral front-runners Jane Lomax Smith, Rex Patrick, and incumbent Sandy Verschoor were challenged on what they would do to protect and advance your Adelaide Park Lands.
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.
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.
