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.
A review of possible sites for a new Women's and Children's Hospital has found that a site near the corner of West Terrace and North Terrace would be "relatively inexpensive" to acquire, and would offer significantly better connectivity with the broader biomedical, research and university precinct.
Meantime debate over the hospital site has gone national; with the Chair of the Australian Heritage Council advocating for Your Park Lands.
There’s been a lot of publicity in recent weeks about two controversial development proposals in your Open Green Public Park Lands.
However the proposed new Aquatic Centre in Park 2, and the proposed new Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Park 27 are only the latest examples of a decades-long trend of Park losses. In October 2022, work is well underway to build over Park Lands at four other sites.
A community event will help celebrate the success of the new skate park in Gladys Elphick Park / Narnungga (Park 25) – a month after it opened.
To mark the launch, the City of Adelaide and On The Flip Side are hosting a free, all-ages Skate Daze event this Saturday, October 8. Prior to the day, APA’s Carla Caruso spoke to a few skateboarders about their views on the new facility.
We hope you love your Park Lands, and we hope that you will help us spread the love. The greatest challenge that we face, every day, is trying to convince the State Government to Love Your Park Lands too.
Fortunately, despite State Government planned attacks on three Park Lands sites, the Deputy Premier is now offering to talk to you about "greening our city".
The privatisation of the former Festival Plaza, within Tarntanya Wama (Park 26) is set to become even more obscene.
Greens MLC Robert Simms has accused the Labor and Liberal parties of being "in the pocket of the development class" while launching a scathing critique of Park Lands dealings between successive State Governments and billionaire property developer Lang Walker.
21 election candidates offered themselves up for public scrutiny last Wednesday evening, as the Adelaide Park Lands Association hosted a “candidates forum” at the North Adelaide Community Centre.
Lord Mayoral front-runners Jane Lomax Smith, Rex Patrick, and incumbent Sandy Verschoor were challenged on what they would do to protect and advance your Adelaide Park Lands.
Adelaide’s abundant rainfall this year has been good for one particular group: the crew behind the “Raining Poetry” project.
A team of postgraduate students has been busy stencilling some of your pathways with short poems, penned by talented, local writers. Like magic, the poetry becomes visible only when wet.
In announcing the State Government's latest proposed attack on Adelaide's heritage, Premier Peter Malinauskas claims that you (and State parliamentarians) must make a binary choice. He’s urging yes to a hospital, and NO to your heritage.
But he’s overlooked the best option: having both.
The State Government is drawing up legislation which, if passed, would allow a $3 billion new Women’s and Children’s Hospital to replace the Thebarton Police barracks and most of Kate Cocks Park in Park 27 of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Adelaide Lord Mayoral candidate Rex Patrick has stepped in to expose the bungled State Government process that now threatens dozens of mature trees in your Adelaide Park Lands.
Mr Patrick’s FOI request will reveal whether the State Government has given any consideration to the overwhelming public feedback to support Park Lands and support a brownfield site for a new Aquatic Centre.
A new face is at the helm of our biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
Nataliya Sard is a senior financial planner, former professional dancer, and a passionate advocate for the arts. APA’s Carla Caruso chatted to Nataliya about the entries coming in now for the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, her background, and plenty more.
A huge field of candidates has nominated for election to the City Council, including the surprising last-minute nomination of former Lord Mayor Jane Lomax Smith.
When nominations closed on Tuesday 6 September, there were 45 candidates vying for the 12 positions on Council, to govern what happens in your Park Lands over the next four years.
The State Government has rejected community feedback, and stamped out the opportunity for a win-win, by choosing to repeat the mistakes of the past and put a new Aquatic Centre on your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Up to 61 mature trees could be saved, if the State Government retracts its Park threats and considers the people's choice: a near-city brownfield site.
