State Election 2022 - Vote for your Park Lands

If you love your Park Lands, how can you vote for them? See our recommendations below.

On 11 February 2022, we contacted each political party contesting the State election, with six open-ended questions. We also asked you, our members and supporters to pose the same six questions to your local candidates.

We received responses from nine political parties (those whose logos appear on this page).

APA’s Committee met on Thursday 3 March to evaluate the responses, and score them. The scores have informed a recommendation for our thousands of members and supporters, on how to "vote for your Park Lands". We suggest: vote for your Park Lands in this order:

We have not produced how-to-vote guides for all electorates. This one, for the electorate of Adelaide, is an example which reflects the party scores above.

See our questions, each party’s response, and our evaluation and scores:

Some of the parties delivered responses which included comment that was irrelevant to our questions. In our evaluations we have quoted only the portion of each response that was relevant to the question. Nevertheless, you can read each party’s full responses at the links below:


What about independent candidates and other MINOR PARTIEs?

We did not attempt to survey independent candidates for the House of Assembly. Accordingly, in any House of Assembly electorate where there is one or more independent candidates, please ask each independent candidate to respond to the same six open-ended questions.

Several minor parties (Legalise Cannabis, National Party, Advance SA, Child Protection Party, Australia Family Party and Family First) did not respond to our candidate survey and so have not been included in our how-to-vote recommendations.

What about each party’s track record in the past?

We considered ranking both the Liberal and Labor parties on their past records of mismanaging your Park Lands. Both of the major parties have had appalling records over the past decade in attacking your Park Lands. The Liberal Party has attacked your Park Lands relentlessly since winning Government in March 2018, but the Labor Party’s record in the years before 2018 was little different.

In the end, the APA Committee decided it would be too subjective to assign arbitrary scores to past Park Lands attacks by each of the major parties.

The scoring system that we have adopted for this assessment gives each political party (both major parties and minor parties) an equal opportunity to be assessed on their respective plans for the future of your Adelaide Park Lands.