Divert your attention; deny the obvious; refuse to acknowledge your views: these are just some of the tactics being used by Government MPs to avoid admitting that they are attacking your Park Lands.

We’ve unpacked the weasel words, the half truths and the falsehoods that disguise their obvious lack of Park Lands love.

State Opposition leader David Speirs has promised that Liberal MPs will move in State Parliament, during May, for an independent inquiry into at least one of the State Government’s six recent attacks on your Adelaide Park Lands.

Fencing more than a kilometre long; with stables, sheds, parking, storage for guns, fodder, machinery and more.

An artist’s impression has emerged, of the State Government proposal to destroy the most biodiverse site within your Park Lands, with a compound much larger than the current Thebarton Police barracks.

Historic ornate gates, and a brownies owl and toadstool sculpture. These are just two of the features of Adelaide’s Botanic Garden in your Park 11 that have brought memories flooding back to expatriate Karen Rowley.

Citizen scientists are hastening their efforts to identify the extent of biodiversity in your southern Park Lands, before the State Government carries out current plans to destroy eight hectares with a new security-fenced police compound.

So far, the Government has shown no sign of Loving Your Park Lands.

More than four hundred votes have been received so far, in polling for the People’s Choice award at the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize exhibition.

Six leaders have emerged as front runners. Record your on-line vote for your favourite inspirational Park Lands art work, before the exhibition closes on 7 May.

The State Government will annoy pedestrians and cyclists for two months later this year, to cater for a four-day carbon emission motor sport festival.

One of the most popular pedestrian and cycling routes across your Park Lands will be closed for 60 days, for safety reasons, while a motor sport track is constructed again.

State Government bureaucrats are pressing ahead with plans for a new building on your Park Lands despite clear community feedback that it should go elsewhere.

Planning for a new Aquatic centre is proceeding, blind to clear community feedback that it should be sited on a brownfield location such as at Hindmarsh or Thebarton.

You can secure an instant tax-write-off for your business by buying and proudly displaying one of the finalist artworks from the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. Browse the 80 works on display at the Festival Centre or in our on-line catalogue. But grab your favourite before someone else does!

A community-led initiative will launch later this month, to mitigate the effects of climate change on the Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) creating more shade and enhancing the Park’s biodiversity.

Come and help plant trees and shrubs, then stay for a picnic lunch on Saturday 29 April.

This “Living Natural Treasure" in your Park Lands is getting widespread community support. Find out who is speaking up, and why each one of these groups is so concerned about the Government’s plans.