Your Adelaide Park Lands are listed as a National Heritage place, but until now that has afforded them zero protection from a stream of State Government assaults.

However, Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has signalled that might be about to change, under a proposed new Federal Environment Protection Agency.

Last month’s re-zoning of Helen Mayo Park has fallen short of the Labor Government’s promise of “full protection”. A large part of this Park is still at risk of being lost under new buildings of up to 20 storeys.

Cognitive dissonance is a mental conflict that occurs when your actions and beliefs are at odds with each other. You believe something, but act as if you don't believe it.

A Labor-controlled Parliamentary Committee has started looking at how "to improve the resilience and longevity of trees comprising the urban forest." But will the Committee look at the actions of the Labor State Government?

Despite launching six attacks this year on your Adelaide Park Lands, the State Labor Government has honoured one of its pre-election promises - to reverse the former Liberal Government's "entertainment" zoning of Helen Mayo Park.

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 have been some strange sights in your Park Lands during recent days, with more changes on the horizon.

New lighting and pathways, a new soccer pitch, and some weird mounds of earth.

APA photographer Lyndon Stacy has been digging around the dig sites.

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.

Heavy rain and mud marred the Harvest Rock festival in your eastern Park Lands on 19 and 20 November.

Grassed areas of Rymill Park / Murlawairrpurka (Park 14) and King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15) were churned up by the crowd, but that didn’t seem to dampen spirits.

Politicians seem to have trouble recognising the opportunities for economic development from capitalising on your globally unique Adelaide Park Lands.

Who will back heritage listing and world promotion of your Park Lands, as a driver of economic development?

Results from the City Council election have sent a strong message to the State Government.

At a time when the State Government is relentlessly attacking your Park Lands, it is Park Lands advocates and protectors who have been endorsed by voters.

Do you know a secondary school student with an artistic flair?

If so, let them know about an opportunity to enter one of South Australia’s most prestigious Art Prize competitions for FREE.

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.