The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands has cleared the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.
The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so that an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.
The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands is designed to clear the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.
The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.
Our “Possum Park Protection Platoon” is planning the next stage in our fight to protect Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands from State Government chainsaws that are threatening hundreds of trees in this unique urban forest.
It's time to PROTECT one Park and its 104 species.
At 11am on June 5, World Environment Day, come to the steps of Parliament House, North Terrace, to help PROTECT Possum Park.
Expose the Government’s LIV Golf excuse for yet another Park Lands commercialisation attack.
More than four hundred votes have been received so far, in polling for the People’s Choice award at the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize exhibition.
Six leaders have emerged as front runners. Record your on-line vote for your favourite inspirational Park Lands art work, before the exhibition closes on 7 May.
The State Government will annoy pedestrians and cyclists for two months later this year, to cater for a four-day carbon emission motor sport festival.
One of the most popular pedestrian and cycling routes across your Park Lands will be closed for 60 days, for safety reasons, while a motor sport track is constructed again.
State Government bureaucrats are pressing ahead with plans for a new building on your Park Lands despite clear community feedback that it should go elsewhere.
Planning for a new Aquatic centre is proceeding, blind to clear community feedback that it should be sited on a brownfield location such as at Hindmarsh or Thebarton.
“Staycation” was somewhat of a buzzword during the height of the pandemic.
But for some, that fever for being a tourist in their own city hasn’t left them. One couple enjoy their home-based travel adventures so much, they’ve created a YouTube channel and have a large following for their vlogging.
Top of their list of things to do? Visiting your Adelaide Park Lands.
What does it take to create a first-prize-winning piece of art, for the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize?
First-prize winner, Goolwa artist John Foubister explains how he turned two sticks and two stones into a $20,000 prize. He’s chatted to both APA’s Carla Caruso, and the ABC’s Peter Goers about his award-winning oil painting.
Two Lord Mayors and the Deputy Premier rubbed shoulders with dozens of artists at the opening night of the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
Are you “inspired” by the winning painting of rocks and sticks? You have an opportunity to vote for your favourite artwork, now that the judges have had their say.
A public rally has been called for Saturday 1 April in a bid to save a rare trove of restored native bushland, from being bulldozed for a “semi-industrial complex” in your Park Lands.
Hundreds of native species, lovingly restored over the past 15 years are set to be wiped out by a compound almost twice the size of the Adelaide Oval stadium, unless the Government changes course.
But you can intervene.
Tens of thousands of flying foxes were outnumbered earlier this month by people attending WOMADelaide, but the bats are still a huge crowd in Botanic Park. Fortunately there is a team of about 40 volunteers who look after, rescue or foster sick, injured or orphaned flying foxes and microbats around Adelaide.
The State Government has backed away from its own warning, last month, that most of Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli would be subjected to construction activity over the next eight years.
The project team, planning to build a $3 billion hospital on Park 27 is playing down earlier Government advice that 19 hectares of your Park Lands would be subject to “large-scale excavation works” for the next eight years.
A two-million dollar State Government grant is likely to lead to a new two-storey sports building being erected on Mary Lee Park (Park 27B) off Park Terrace near Bowden.
There’s been no official announcement but there seems little doubt that the expansion will go ahead, subject to the West Adelaide Soccer Club getting approval for a new building design.
You can sleep in for an hour, on the first day after daylight saving ends, and still be in time to join the Park Loop collective: walk, run or cycle around Adelaide on the Park Lands Trail.
An additional hour’s sleep will help you feel energised for a stroll, starting at 9am around the world’s only City in a park; a jaunt of about 15 km with your fellow loopers!
