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.”
Come and try it! Find out about joining our team of Park Ambassadors in 2024.
An information session on Monday 6 November will show you how easy it is to be the eyes and ears and voice of one Park within your Adelaide Park Lands. You can also enjoy the first screening of “World’s Only” our soon-to-be-released documentary.
Just weeks before State Government-contracted chainsaws are set to start tearing down dozens of mature trees in your Adelaide Park Lands, a Labor-chaired Parliamentary Committee has urged the opposite.
The Committee’s recommendations will be seen as an embarrassment to the State Government as it prepares to attack two sites within your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Our contributing cultural historian, Dr Noris Ioannou, laments the upcoming demolition of heritage-listed police barracks and historic olive trees in your Park 27.
Dr Ioannou argues that destruction of these landmarks will prevent future South Australians from being able to step back in time and see life through the eyes of those from the past.
Members of the Stolen Generations now have a dedicated space in the city to reflect and connect, with a Place of Reflection opening last month in Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14).
At the centre of the space is a bronze sculpture, created by renowned Ngarrindjerri weaver Aunty Yvonne Koolmatrie and South Australian designer Karl Meyer.
While some fear monsters lurking in the dark, an event organiser says the real ‘monster’ is our growing anxiety around heading outdoors.
Daniel Havey is encouraging people to reconnect with nature after dark, by dancing in costume, in Golden Wattle Park / Mirnu Wirra (Park 21W of your Adelaide Park Lands) on Sunday, October 15.
Adelaide City Council has paused processes that might green-light the State Government’s proposed new $135 million megalith aquatic and commercial centre in your Park Lands.
In deciding the fate of your Park Lands, the City Council is caught between the demands of the State Government, and the clearly-expressed wishes of its own community.
Premier Peter Malinauskas says his Government has been subject to an “unfair characterisation that suggests that we've declared war on the Park Lands.”
The Premier has received the names of 7,500 people who’ve signed a petition, urging him to choose a win-win brownfield site for a new $135 million two-storey Aquatic and commercial centre.
