Dear Premier, why won’t you call me by my name? If you are going to chop down my trees, why won’t you look me in the forest and tell me straight? Yours sincerely, Pirltawardli ….
It’s holiday time - so time to explore your Park Lands, especially the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of a dozen dates over the next few weeks.
More than 300 trees have been felled, so far, to make room for a three billion dollar hospital on your Park Lands, but much more tree destruction is on the way.
You’re invited! Please come to inspect, first-hand, the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of 15 dates over the next few weeks.
For some of us, doing the 16km Park Lands Loop is enough of an achievement.
For others, meandering the Adelaide Park Lands is a good way to stay limber before tackling longer distances, further afield. Carla Caruso chatted to two SA hikers, who enjoy frequenting the city’s parks in between their longer, rural hikes.
The Adelaide City Council has caved in to hostage threats and has voted to sell part of your Open Green Public Park Lands to the State Government, for a new high school building.
The decision, at Council’s meeting on Tuesday 12 July, makes the City of Adelaide complicit in one of the many current Park Lands attacks by the State Government.
Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, your Adelaide Park Lands are still providing multiple public health benefits.
The value of Open Green Public space for maintaining and improving public health has never been greater. In addition, three sites within the western Park Lands are filling vital roles in detecting and combating the spread of the virus.
Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) is a park divided. Two rival forces are pulling the largest area of your Adelaide Park Lands in opposite directions. Only one of those forces already has the money to achieve its purposes.
This year, so far, $18 million has been confirmed to increase carbon emissions and concrete in Victoria Park. On the other hand, a grant application for $47,180 to subsidise community tree planting is hanging in the balance.
Sophie's Choice is a story (and movie) about a refugee who was forced to choose which one of her two children would be killed, in order to save the other.
Now, the State Government is asking for your “Sophie's Choice.” Please ACT NOW, and take our 1-minute survey to hit back at the idea that dozens of trees must be killed to save the rest of this Park.
A local commercial drone videographer has a new appreciation for the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari after shooting aerial footage along the river, including here in your Adelaide Park Lands.
Harry runs Adelaide Aerial with wife Ann-Marie. They’ve just spent six weeks capturing rejuvenated parts of the river from up above – from the Hills to West Beach – for Green Adelaide.
Have you ever stumbled across words or artworks, created from bark, leaves and the like, in your Adelaide Park Lands? Chances are you’ve happened upon the designs of Adelaide sculptor and installation artist Jane Skeer.
The 57-year-old recently scooped a prestigious Samstag scholarship, so will leave for Glasgow for two years in September. However, she’s hoping others will continue making art from nature in her wake, putting smiles on the faces of passers-by.
If you Love your Park Lands you can't help but acknowledge and respect this land's traditional custodians; the Kaurna people who cared for the land for many thousands of years before European settlers arrived here in the 1830s.
APA joined with the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation on Sunday 3 July to get a Kaurna perspective on your Park Lands, from elder Rod O'Brien.
For the second time in two years, a South Australian Olympic hero is spearheading a campaign on behalf of a Park that bears her name.
Denise Norton who fought to save Denise Norton Park from the Adelaide Crows, is now campaigning to get Denise Norton Park restored as Open Green Public space. She's called for a new Aquatic Centre to be constructed on a nearby brownfield site.
The State Government is preparing to abandon a pre-election commitment to protect Adelaide's significant trees, with a proposed wholesale slaughter of mature trees in the Adelaide Park Lands.
To save dozens of trees, take our 1-minute survey, to suggest an alternative location for the proposed new Aquatic Centre:
Despite declaring a "climate emergency" only weeks ago the State Government has shown it’s still captured by the anachronism of combustion engine motor racing, at the expense of your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Your taxes will be subsidising a four-day festival of carbon emissions each year until December 2026, and paving over even more of your Park Lands.
An Adelaide Park Lands zookeeper, who’s been raising funds for a Ukrainian animal shelter, has had some star power behind her cause.
Canadian actress Karin Konoval, who played ‘Maurice the Orangutan’ in the Planet of the Apes movies, has been regularly contributing to the fundraiser. As previously reported, Jodie Sheridan, the orangutan project lead at Adelaide Zoo in Park 11, has been campaigning on the sanctuary’s behalf after striking up an online friendship with its founder.
The State Government's threats to dozens of trees in your Adelaide Park Lands is making headlines around Australia.
A battle is brewing between the State Government, seeking to chop down trees for a new $82 million aquatic centre, and Park Lands lovers seeking a win-win, with a new centre on a nearby brownfields site.
Adelaide has been dubbed ‘the murder capital of Australia’, thanks to a few notorious crimes. So, it’s fitting that the city is home to several ‘dark history’ walks and ghost tours.
As winter sets in, we thought it a good time to check out one such tour – at the West Terrace Cemetery in GS Kingston Park / Wirrarninthi (Park 23).
The City Council is in the process of installing new shared-use cycling and pedestrian paths along the edge of South Terrace, in Carriageway Park / Tuthangga (Park 17) and in Peppermint Park / Wita Wirra (Park 18).
However not everyone believes this is an optimum solution for either cyclists or pedestrians. APA's Peter Lumb puts the case for better, separated bike lanes, including in these two locations.
