The hashtag #ProtectParksPete will soon be trending on social media. If you Love Your Park Lands, help us spread this hashtag, to bring it to the notice of the Premier, Peter Malinauskas as he prepares plans to slash more trees.
The Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has a vision: that your Park Lands must be profit centres, and that therefore Open, Green, Public land (as well as trees and biodiversity) must be subservient, or sacrificed to money-making imperatives, such as LIV golf.
There's uncertainty about the future of the three North Adelaide Golf Courses, on Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands) and the 85 species identified so far amongst the biodiversity of that Park.
Take our short survey to tell us about you and your Park Lands. What’s important to you? How could we improve our role?
It’ll take about nine minutes to choose your responses; and there are ten prizes of Park Lands merchandise to be won, for completed surveys.
The Premier, Peter Malinauskas is remaining tight-lipped about how your Adelaide Park Lands would be affected by proposals to "re-develop" the golf courses in Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1).
Dr Ingrid Wangel has many strings to her bow. She’s APA’s Deputy President, also our Park Ambassador for Denise Norton Park / Pardipardinyilla (Park 2), a rural doctor, and a muso - plus the daughter of an Olympian.
We spoke to her about what makes her so passionate about your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.
Giddy-up! Keen joggers and walkers can hoof it to a new parkrun at Lefevre Park / Nantu Wama (Park 6), best known for its horse paddocks and bridle track.
Originating in the UK, parkruns are free, weekly, community events, held all around the globe; and gaining in popularity especially in your Adelaide Park Lands.
What happens when Adelaide people are given a real choice about where they would like to see a new Aquatic Centre?
674 responses to APA's community survey have delivered a strong message to the State Government: urging a win-win for both swimmers and your Park Lands, with a new Aquatic Centre in an inner suburb and restoration of the existing site.
The State Government has identified several Park Lands sites that it is holding hostage while demanding the release of other Park Lands sites on which it wants to put enormous new buildings.
These proposed "land swaps" are like the 'shell game' or the pea and thimble trick. They are being offered to make it appear as if your Park Lands would be winning.
The first ride in Adelaide, as part of the global Kidical Mass movement, will kick off from your Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli (Park 27) in September.
Kidical Mass is a growing worldwide body of people with the same vision: to allow children and young people to be able to safely and independently travel by bicycle, wherever they live.
Every five years the City Council reviews the over-arching "Management Strategy" for your Adelaide Park Lands. This review is required by law. The Management Strategy guides some (not all!) future decisions about your Park Lands. The current plan is being reviewed and you are invited to have your say.
Consultation on a proposed new Aquatic Centre site has turned into a farce.
Hundreds of responses to APA's ongoing community survey, demanding a win-win for both swimmers and your Park Lands, have been with-held from a "community reference group” hand-picked by State Government consultants to gauge the views of the public on a new Aquatic Centre site.
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.
