Wild olives can be environmental weeds. But that doesn’t make Adelaide’s historic, managed olive groves disposable.
The 1872 grove in King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15) is threatened by the proposed MotoGP circuit.
But, we can control invasive olives and protect our living heritage.
Meet Dorothy Dunne — APA’s Membership Officer, lifelong nature lover and passionate Park Lands advocate.
From growing up beside Crown land to guerrilla planting, Trees for Life and years of activism, Dorothy has never been afraid to speak her mind. Now approaching 80, she remains as passionate as ever about protecting the Park Lands as free, peaceful public spaces for everyone.
Meet one of our essential Park Lands warriors.
The State Government is consulting on its proposed MotoGP circuit in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi — including permanent construction and the removal of more than 400 trees.
Submissions close 11.59 pm, Sunday 20 September.
We’ve put together a simple guide on how to make a submission, what you might raise, and a template to help you get started.
Find out how to have your say.
The Adelaide Park Lands aren’t just green space – they’re a vital part of how students, workers and recreational cyclists get around our city.
Kadaltilla / Adelaide Park Lands Authority says the Park Lands provide around 59 kilometres of continuous walking and cycling paths, connecting major precincts through routes including the Adelaide Park Lands Trail and River Torrens Linear Park.
And there’s an economic benefit too. Walking and cycling in the Park Lands generates an estimated $196 million in annual economic value, through direct health, transport and environmental benefits.
As Bike Adelaide Chair David Elliott writes, safe, connected Park Lands paths are critical to cycling in Adelaide – and to keeping our city moving.
It took a Federal Court case to find out what the State Government is actually planning for John E. Brown Park.
A two-storey driving range, 108 car parks, up to 400 metres of netting, an 18-hole mini-golf course, retail facilities, new roads, water tanks and other infrastructure — all on public Park Lands.
These are significant changes, yet despite repeated questions, the community has had no meaningful opportunity to see or comment on the plans.
Why did it take a court case for South Australians to find out what is being proposed for their Park Lands?
The process of getting a new law passed by Parliament is usually slow and cumbersome.
However, the most serious new law affecting your Adelaide Park Lands went through all stages in the Legislative Council in less than three hours.
This new law gives two State Government Ministers unfettered powers to confiscate any of your Park Lands that they want.
State Government spin doctors (and some media allies) have been busy with smoke and mirrors, trying to cloud the truth about multiple Park Lands attacks (five this year so far).
Like magicians who divert your attention to create an illusion, State Government misinformation is hiding the truth about massive losses to your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Every creature matters in its own wonderful way – including wasps, according to writer Katrina Germein.
The bestselling children’s author has just released her first non-fiction picture book, Wonderful Wasps.
We spoke to Katrina about the project - including why more wasps means fewer spiders! - and her love of your Park Lands.
With entries open for our biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, we wanted to put the spotlight on those making things happen behind the scenes.
Among the unsung heroes is webmaster Brook Gerard. Although he’s based in the historic mining town of Burra – a two-hour drive from the CBD – this hasn’t stopped him from being involved in the competition since its inception in 2014.
If you love your Adelaide Park Lands then please take a moment to protect them from the State Labor Government’s unprecedented series of attacks.
Threats to put a series of massive new buildings onto your Open Green Public Park Lands must be the subject of a full inquiry. Your email to MPs can make a difference.
Visitors to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) have been expressing surprise at the extent of new paved roadways, laid over what were previously dirt tracks.
Although the freshly-laid bitumen will last for decades, it has been laid for a very temporary purpose: to prop up a taxpayer-subsidised carbon emission festival for only four days per year, and only until 2026.
After more than a year’s gestation, the little sister to the Victoria Park wetlands has now been born, complete with newly-established reed beds, widened creek line, and trails.
Park Ambassador Peter Lumb and photographer Lyndon Stacy have inspected the finished waterway and mini-wetlands in Blue Gum Park / Kurangga (Park 20).
The State Opposition and the Greens are preparing to jointly demand a Select Committee of State Parliament to investigate the Government's "unprecedented" grab for your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.
The State Government has U-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Park Lands, and has launched attacks on Park Lands for four separate projects each of which could be built on vacant brownfield sites.
When stunning, filmic images of horses kept popping up on our social media feed, we imagined that they had been taken someplace afar.
It was only on closer inspection that we discovered that the beautiful pictures were actually taken in your Lefevre Park / Nantu Wama (Park 6).
We had to find out more about the photographer behind the awe-inspiring ‘Horses of North Adelaide’ account. Here’s what we uncovered…
The Labor Party has u-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Adelaide Park Lands, while flagging yet another Park Lands attack, the fourth in just seven months.
The latest proposed attack: new Police buildings; provides further evidence that there is very little Park Lands Love within State Government ranks.
The State Government has been challenged to bring forward its proposed restoration of your Park Lands near the old Adelaide Gaol.
The Adelaide Park Lands Association has welcomed an announcement by Health Minister Chris Picton that fences around parts of the old Gaol and Kate Cocks Park should be removed, and the Park landscaped.
However Mr Picton should be acting promptly to remove these fences and restore public access to these areas of your Park Lands.
Entries have been coming in, steadily, over the past few weeks for the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
The motto for our Art Prize competition is “Inspire”. We hope and expect that artists, inspired by your Adelaide Park Lands, will create artistic works that inspire others. But why do our sponsors and donors contribute?
We hope that 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.
Elected in March 2022 on a platform that included protecting Parks and tree canopy, the Labor State Government has since shown, by its actions, that it does not love your world-unique Adelaide Park Lands.
Join thousands of fellow Australians around the country, in using your smart-phone to observe and record whatever life you can see or hear, in one of the rare precious bushland areas in your Adelaide Park Lands.
Join us with your smartphone on Sunday morning, 30 October, 10am to 12 noon, on the Wirrarninthi Environmental Trail within Park 23. We’ll help you record biodiversity as part of the Great Southern BioBlitz.
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.
