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.
This week marks a full four years since the State Heritage Council recommended your Open Green Public Park Lands for State Heritage listing.
Despite a fresh Opposition commitment to push for future World Heritage listing, the Park Lands are still facing State heritage obstruction from the State Government.
While the State Government is proposing to target your Open Green Public Park Lands for massive new buildings, an ideal brownfield building location, right next to your Park Lands, is going begging.
We’ve written to the Government, urging them to buy the old West End brewery site, so the can follow through on their promise to “protect and restore” your Park Lands.
There’s a new concept at the Adelaide Botanic Garden (Park 11): a pop-up art and gift shop, featuring work by 20 SA artists.
The Botanic Art Collective will hold its next event – Botanic Christmas Beauty – at the Noel Lothian Hall (near the rose garden) from this Friday to Sunday, December 2-4. APA’s Carla Caruso chatted to organiser, Adele Butler to find out more about it.
Unless you are a well-established professional artist, the process of entering any art prize might seem daunting.
However for any artist, including new or budding hopefuls, entering the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is a uniquely valuable opportunity: for personal, professional, social, community, and environmental reasons.
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.
