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Unique
What We Do
* Explore
> Explore - Guided Walks
> Explore - Trail Guides
* Inspire
* Protect
* Restore
Features of Your Park Lands
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August 24, 2025
Shane Sody
"Stop the Chop" community forum

This is the consultation that the State Government doesn't want you to have!

“Stop the Chop” Community forum, Sunday 21 September. Hear the facts, put your questions to a panel of experts. Find out what’s at risk from State Government bulldozers and chainsaws.

"Stop the Chop" community forum
July 24, 2025
Shane Sody
60 per cent tree loss: expert warning

An international golf course designer and LIV Golf supporter has sounded an alarm about the prospect of losing thousands of trees from the picturesque North Adelaide golf courses in your Park Lands.

60 per cent tree loss: expert warning
July 15, 2025
Shane Sody
What you're telling the Government

It seems that State Government ministers need a fresh reminder about how many people value and love your Park Lands.

The Possum Park Protection Platoon is stepping up advocacy and action to head off the Government’s seizure of your Park Lands for profit.

What you're telling the Government
June 30, 2025
Shane Sody
Hostile takeover

The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands has cleared the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.

The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so that an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.

Hostile takeover
June 20, 2025
Shane Sody
Takeover to Build Over

The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands is designed to clear the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.

The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.

Takeover to Build Over
Shane Sody
August 30, 2025

Save Festival Plaza - campaign continues

Shane Sody
August 30, 2025
Save Festival Plaza - campaign continues

The ‘Save Festival Plaza Alliance’ is planning its next move, after a rally at Parliament House in July and a full-page newspaper advertisement in August.

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Shane Sody
August 30, 2025

A one-dimensional view

Shane Sody
August 30, 2025
A one-dimensional view

Community support is growing for the trees, the biodiversity and the Kaurna significance of Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands), while the State Government ploughs ahead with a one-dimensional focus only on the commercial value of golf.

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Shane Sody
August 29, 2025

Park Lands vote demonstrated again

Shane Sody
August 29, 2025
Park Lands vote demonstrated again

Being known as a strong supporter of your Adelaide Park Lands has once again proved to be a vote-winner within the City of Adelaide. The results of a supplementary election for City Council’s Central Ward will be ringing alarm bells for SA Labor.

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Shane Sody
August 27, 2025

Tuthangga: Stories across generations

Shane Sody
August 27, 2025
Tuthangga: Stories across generations

One Park, with multiple stories across generations. Dive into three of the very different, long-lasting practices that keep people coming back to Carriageway Park /Tuthangga (Park 17)

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Shane Sody
August 26, 2025

Park Poetry - "Trees"

Shane Sody
August 26, 2025
Park Poetry - "Trees"

Here’s the latest in our series of Park Poetry - “Trees” by Tony Doyle - an ode to these “magnificent gifts of nature”.

Read “Trees” here, or listen as Tony reads it to you.

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Shane Sody
August 26, 2025

Know Your Park Lands Plants - Swollen Spear Grass

Shane Sody
August 26, 2025
Know Your Park Lands Plants - Swollen Spear Grass

Large trees are not the only important plants within your Adelaide Park Lands. Closer to the ground, a rare type of spear-grass is hanging on in isolated patches, helping to maintain biodiversity.

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Shane Sody
August 24, 2025

"Stop the Chop" community forum

Shane Sody
August 24, 2025
"Stop the Chop" community forum

This is the consultation that the State Government doesn't want you to have!

“Stop the Chop” Community forum, Sunday 21 September. Hear the facts, put your questions to a panel of experts. Find out what’s at risk from State Government bulldozers and chainsaws.

1 Comment
Shane Sody
August 14, 2025

"Temporary" for three years

Shane Sody
August 14, 2025
"Temporary" for three years

A “temporary” campground for indigenous visitors to Adelaide, set up more than two years ago in your south-west Park Lands, is set to continue for at least another 10 months.

4 Comments
Shane Sody
August 13, 2025

"Halt Park damage plans"

Shane Sody
August 13, 2025
"Halt Park damage plans"

We’re calling for an immediate halt to planning and preparatory work for a golf course “re-development” on your Adelaide Park Lands, with ongoing uncertainty about the future of LIV Golf.

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Shane Sody
August 11, 2025

Will you tip the balance?

Shane Sody
August 11, 2025
Will you tip the balance?

How many petition signatures would it take to persuade Premier Peter Malinauskas to prioritise thousands of trees and biodiversity; instead of building over Open, Green, Public Park Land for a commercial golf business? Could your signature be the one that makes the crucial difference?

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Shane Sody
July 31, 2025

Protecting Possum Park Trees

Shane Sody
July 31, 2025
Protecting Possum Park Trees

On National Tree Day, Sunday 27 July, a team of volunteers - the Possum Park Protection Platoon - came together to highlight some of the many trees at risk from State Government bulldozers and chainsaws. 

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Shane Sody
July 31, 2025

Swim in the Torrens? 2025 challenge remains

Shane Sody
July 31, 2025
Swim in the Torrens?  2025 challenge remains

How can the Torrens Lake in the heart of your Adelaide Park Lands be made safe for swimming?

This long-term challenge issued seven years ago is getting revived at an election candidates’ forum on 4 August.

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Shane Sody
July 31, 2025

Who to vote for in Central Ward?

Shane Sody
July 31, 2025
Who to vote for in Central Ward?

If you’re a voter in the City Council's Central Ward, you are faced with a bewildering choice: 19 candidates vying for four positions on the Council, in a supplementary election, only 15 months before the next entire Council general poll in October 2026.

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Shane Sody
July 30, 2025

92% oppose golf course takeover law

Shane Sody
July 30, 2025
92% oppose golf course takeover law

92 percent of survey respondents say they disapprove of a law rushed through State Parliament at the end of June to clear away any and all legal obstacles to “re-development” of a golf course urban forest in your Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
July 30, 2025

Expand your Park Lands? - Episode 2

Shane Sody
July 30, 2025
Expand your Park Lands? - Episode 2

There’s been a call to expand your Park Lands into an historic part of North Adelaide, to replace some of the many Open, Green, Public Park Lands lost to recent State Government building developments.

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Shane Sody
July 30, 2025

What bird is that? - Red Rumped Parrot

Shane Sody
July 30, 2025
What bird is that? - Red Rumped Parrot

What is “sexual dimorphism”? A small grass parrot, found in your Adelaide Park Lands, will show you.

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Shane Sody
July 29, 2025

Kaurna Cultural Heritage Trail

Shane Sody
July 29, 2025
Kaurna Cultural Heritage Trail

A new resource has become available to help you explore culturally significant Kaurna sites along the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari, including many sites within your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
July 27, 2025

Park Poetry - "Nelumbo Pond"

Shane Sody
July 27, 2025
Park Poetry - "Nelumbo Pond"

The “Nelumbo Pond” in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Park 11, is a magnet for photographers, ducks and even poets!

In the latest instalment of our “Park Poetry” series, Deb Stewart reflects on one of her favourite places in your Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
July 24, 2025

60 per cent tree loss: expert warning

Shane Sody
July 24, 2025
60 per cent tree loss: expert warning

An international golf course designer and LIV Golf supporter has sounded an alarm about the prospect of losing thousands of trees from the picturesque North Adelaide golf courses in your Park Lands.

4 Comments
Shane Sody
July 15, 2025

What you're telling the Government

Shane Sody
July 15, 2025
What you're telling the Government

It seems that State Government ministers need a fresh reminder about how many people value and love your Park Lands.

The Possum Park Protection Platoon is stepping up advocacy and action to head off the Government’s seizure of your Park Lands for profit.

3 Comments
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