Petition

At present we have two petitions gathering signatures on change.org

One to the Premier, to “Save Helen Mayo Park” - the other to the Leader of the Opposition: “Don’t Bring Fossil Fuel racing cars back to a clean green Park”

Save Helen Mayo Park

To Premier Steven Marshall: SAVE HELEN MAYO PARK

To Premier Steven Marshall: SAVE HELEN MAYO PARK

Helen Mayo Park - part of the world-unique, National Heritage-listed Adelaide Park Lands - is threatened by the Premier's proposed $660 million stadium.

Construction of this proposed stadium on your Open Green Public Park Lands would:

  • require the expensive and disruptive relocation of rowing clubs in the immediate vicinity;

  • be contrary to the Government’s own “Green Adelaide” priority “to increase tree canopy cover and green spaces”;

  • reduce the amenity of the running, cycling and walking path along the River Torrens Linear Park, including the Adelaide Kaurna Walking Trail through Helen Mayo Park;

  • be almost twice as expensive for taxpayers as the option of upgrading the Entertainment Centre at Hindmarsh;

  • be a dubious priority for public spending when there are far more pressing needs within the public health system; and

  • be contrary to the statutory principles of the Adelaide Park Lands Act 2005 “to protect and enhance the Adelaide Park Lands”.

Please sign to "Save Helen Mayo Park" if you agree with ANY of these reasons!

Peter Malinauskas, Leader of the Opposition: Don’t bring fossil fuel racing cars back to a clean, green Park

Peter Malinauskas, Leader of the Opposition: Don’t bring fossil fuel racing cars back to a clean, green Park

In the midst of a climate crisis with the world desperately needing to move away from fossil fuels, the South Australian Labor Party is promising to spend taxpayer millions to return petrol-guzzling relics from last century to the Open, Green, Public spaces of your Adelaide Park Lands.

For decades, the demands of the four-day Adelaide 500 race have limited public access to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) for five months every year.

Recently, support for the event has dwindled, and in 2020 Premier Steven Marshall finally freed the Park from its former annual motor racing shackles.

Unfoirtunatel, Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas then leapt in, making an opportunistic promise that if elected in 2022, a Labor Government would bring back the Adelaide 500 to your Open Green Public Park Lands.

Parks are for people - not racing cars. South Australia's future is with clean green energy not a dirty fossil fuel sport.

Other tourist attraction options - such as the proposed Adelaide Recreation Circuit - would bring visitors to Adelaide year-round.

This is the wrong move in a climate crisis.

While fossil fuel racing cars persist, they would be "Better at the Bend" not in a Open, Green, Public park.

Please sign to urge Peter Malinauskas to think again. Think of SA's bright future, not its dirty, carbon-encrusted past.