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.
Take our short survey to tell us about you and your Park Lands. What’s important to you? How could we improve our role?
It’ll take about nine minutes to choose your responses; and there are ten prizes of Park Lands merchandise to be won, for completed surveys.
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).
Cognitive dissonance is a mental conflict that occurs when your actions and beliefs are at odds with each other. You believe something, but act as if you don't believe it.
A Labor-controlled Parliamentary Committee has started looking at how "to improve the resilience and longevity of trees comprising the urban forest." But will the Committee look at the actions of the Labor State Government?
This week marks a full four years since the State Heritage Council recommended your Open Green Public Park Lands for State Heritage listing.
Despite a fresh Opposition commitment to push for future World Heritage listing, the Park Lands are still facing State heritage obstruction from the State Government.
While the State Government is proposing to target your Open Green Public Park Lands for massive new buildings, an ideal brownfield building location, right next to your Park Lands, is going begging.
We’ve written to the Government, urging them to buy the old West End brewery site, so the can follow through on their promise to “protect and restore” your Park Lands.
There’s a new concept at the Adelaide Botanic Garden (Park 11): a pop-up art and gift shop, featuring work by 20 SA artists.
The Botanic Art Collective will hold its next event – Botanic Christmas Beauty – at the Noel Lothian Hall (near the rose garden) from this Friday to Sunday, December 2-4. APA’s Carla Caruso chatted to organiser, Adele Butler to find out more about it.
Unless you are a well-established professional artist, the process of entering any art prize might seem daunting.
However for any artist, including new or budding hopefuls, entering the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is a uniquely valuable opportunity: for personal, professional, social, community, and environmental reasons.
The process of getting a new law passed by Parliament is usually slow and cumbersome.
However, the most serious new law affecting your Adelaide Park Lands went through all stages in the Legislative Council in less than three hours.
This new law gives two State Government Ministers unfettered powers to confiscate any of your Park Lands that they want.
State Government spin doctors (and some media allies) have been busy with smoke and mirrors, trying to cloud the truth about multiple Park Lands attacks (five this year so far).
Like magicians who divert your attention to create an illusion, State Government misinformation is hiding the truth about massive losses to your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Every creature matters in its own wonderful way – including wasps, according to writer Katrina Germein.
The bestselling children’s author has just released her first non-fiction picture book, Wonderful Wasps.
We spoke to Katrina about the project - including why more wasps means fewer spiders! - and her love of your Park Lands.
With entries open for our biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, we wanted to put the spotlight on those making things happen behind the scenes.
Among the unsung heroes is webmaster Brook Gerard. Although he’s based in the historic mining town of Burra – a two-hour drive from the CBD – this hasn’t stopped him from being involved in the competition since its inception in 2014.
If you love your Adelaide Park Lands then please take a moment to protect them from the State Labor Government’s unprecedented series of attacks.
Threats to put a series of massive new buildings onto your Open Green Public Park Lands must be the subject of a full inquiry. Your email to MPs can make a difference.
