What will the proposed MotoGP mean for community health? Margaret Brown looks beyond the economic arguments to the potential impacts of increased noise, air pollution, traffic congestion, tree loss and the disruption of green space. She argues that the health costs of bringing more motor racing into the Adelaide Park Lands deserve much greater scrutiny.
Australia loves sport. But should major sporting events come at the expense of our public green spaces? In Brisbane and Adelaide, communities are fighting to protect precious park lands from major developments. Different governments, different projects, but remarkably similar battles.
As the South Australian Government pushes ahead with plans to bring MotoGP to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, a leading birdwatcher says the State could be overlooking another growing tourism opportunity, one that depends on protecting our natural environment rather than building racetracks through it.
Premier Peter Malinauskas says the election settled whether his Government’s controversial Park Lands projects will proceed. Consultation can change the details, but not the decision. But what happens when some of the most contentious details were never put before voters?
Fencing more than a kilometre long; with stables, sheds, parking, storage for guns, fodder, machinery and more.
An artist’s impression has emerged, of the State Government proposal to destroy the most biodiverse site within your Park Lands, with a compound much larger than the current Thebarton Police barracks.
Citizen scientists are hastening their efforts to identify the extent of biodiversity in your southern Park Lands, before the State Government carries out current plans to destroy eight hectares with a new security-fenced police compound.
So far, the Government has shown no sign of Loving Your Park Lands.
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.
