This is the latest in our series of Park Poetry: a meditation by Jules Leigh Koch on his favourite Park Lands location.

What do you call a bird that is mottled brown and cream-coloured? This cute dabbling duck is often found near water in your Park Lands, but how did it get its common name?

The Walker Corporation is proceeding with construction of its planned 38-storey office tower on Festival Plaza in your Park Lands, without waiting for a National Heritage assessment, nor a pending decision from the Federal Environment Minister.

Sundials in public gardens are small monuments to a very old human habit: marking daily life by the arc of the Sun. Your Adelaide Park Lands host three sundials that do more than track solar time — each one anchors memory, design and place.

A “renewal” of Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14 of your Adelaide Park Lands) which has been under way for more than two years, is nearing completion.

A new Strategy coming into effect this month, supposedly to guide management of your Park Lands, has already proven ineffective.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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. 

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.

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.