More than ever this year, the Open, Green, Public spaces of your Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi are shrouded in black plastic, hiding compounds that are contributing to the climate crisis.
A cascade of Freedom of Information applications is aiming to find out why there’s been little to no progress in the campaign to get UNESCO World Heritage listing of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Self-styled “transparency warrior” former Senator Rex Patrick has fired off several FOI applications trying to find out who or what is holding up the process.
Participants at our “Park Quiz” last week received an unexpected bonus - the premiere of the first-ever Adelaide Park Lands song.
The event successfully raised funds for the school student category in the coming 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
The State Planning Commission is seeking your advice, on (among other things) what parts of Greater Adelaide “should be protected from future development.”
Reports that the State Government is close to finalising a deal for the old West End Brewery site at Thebarton has raised hopes that infrastructure developments threatened for your Park Lands might be switched to this alternative site.
Meanwhile, the City Council has deferred a vote on handing over a three-hectare Park Lands site for a $135 million, two-storey megalith aquatic and commercial centre.
Have you noticed this strange small octagonal building in Rundle Park / Kadlitpina (Park 13) near the corner of Botanic Road and Dequetteville Terrace?
It’s on a site that was restored to your Park Lands in the 1980s; and is a rare surviving example of patterned brickwork that was commonly used in the late 1800s.
As well, he delves into how Adelaide became the first fully septic-drained city in the nation.
The Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax-Smith is one of the many who’ve been deceived by State Government propaganda, claiming that a $135 million new Aquatic and commercial centre would have a reduced “footprint” over your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Councillors, voting this month on a massive Park Lands land grab, are being urged to listen to their constituents and see through a barrage of State Government misinformation.
The Adelaide City Council is about to decide whether to protect, or allow an attack on this massive three hectare site within your Adelaide Park Lands.
Sending a few emails before next Tuesday is your chance to save dozens of trees, and get a different, better location for a proposed $135 million megalith aquatic and commercial centre.
The City of Adelaide has won a grant of $198,000 from the State Government’s “Green Adelaide” agency to restore Botanic Creek in your eastern Park Lands.
The three-year upgrade will include a focus on biodiversity, creating new habitat and natural spaces, while acknowledging Kaurna cultural connections.
