Councillor Henry Davis probably does not fit the stereotype of a “tree hugger”.
Nevertheless, as APA’s Carla Caruso found out, this 32-year-old tax lawyer is full of ambition to protect your Park Lands.
The campaign to protect Adelaide's heritage Park Lands has reached a major milestone, securing 13,500 physical signatures. This achievement officially triggers the 10,000-signature threshold required to prompt a Parliamentary Committee inquiry in the Legislative Council.
Spurred by growing community concern over state-backed development projects on public green spaces, the grassroots movement relies entirely on paper petitions distributed by volunteers across South Australia.
"This is bigger than any one person; this is a movement," said City Councillor Keiran Snape. "The fight for our Park Lands isn't a local, city-centric issue, it is a South Australian-wide demand for transparency."
With over two weeks remaining before the petition closes, organisers have set a new stretch target of 18,000 signatures to further strengthen the call for an independent parliamentary inquiry.
What isn't the Government telling us about John E. Brown Park? While a new driving range has been confirmed, the Government has not answered basic questions about parking, fencing or when detailed plans will be made public. With around 185 trees expected to be removed, the community deserves transparency before work begins, not after.
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.
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?
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.