Thilina Gunasekara
A Tale of Two Cities: A Sporting Nation Needs ...

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. 

A Tale of Two Cities: A Sporting Nation Needs Green Space
Thilina Gunasekara
Fumes or plumes? Why not bird tourism?

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. 

Fumes or plumes? Why not bird tourism?
Thilina Gunasekara
When is consultation ‘real’, and when is it BS? ...

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? 

When is consultation ‘real’, and when is it BS? Premier explains his Park Lands mandate.
Thilina Gunasekara
Beyond the Moto Sports Sugar Hit: World ...

The Premier claims the economic benefits of the MotoGP justify the destruction of the Eastern Park Lands.  But international experience suggests World Heritage listing of the Park Lands will generate greater returns. 

Beyond the Moto Sports Sugar Hit: World Heritage Is Adelaide’s True Long-Term Economic Winner
Media Release
Thilina Gunasekara
MEDIA RELEASE: SA Golf Course Act 'undermines ...

Senior Adelaide University academics say the SA Government used legislation to bypass normal planning assessment and public scrutiny of the North Adelaide golf course redevelopment. 

Read what they found — and why the Adelaide Park Lands Association is calling for cast-iron protection against the future sale, privatisation or permanent alienation of our public Park Lands. 

MEDIA RELEASE: SA Golf Course Act 'undermines democracy', say academics

One Threat averted - others remain

One Threat averted - others remain

Efforts to protect and restore your Adelaide Park Lands will now be stepped up, after a huge three-month community effort finally convinced the State Government not to attack your Park Lands with a gigantic police barracks.

It remains to be seen whether this was merely an act of political expediency, or whether the State Government has had a change of heart, and will now start to Love Your Park Lands at other locations.

Read the room, Premier

Read the room, Premier

Premier Peter Malinauskas has been urged to consider the level of community support for your Open, Green Public Adelaide Park Lands before settling on a site to build new police barracks.

A thousand Park Lands supporters “provided cover” last Sunday for one of the threatened sites. Can you see yourself in the video?

Style and the city

Style and the city

Adelaide’s Zoe Aitken is many things: a vintage clothing seller, a keen cyclist, a mother-of-four, a vegetarian, a disability advocate, and an environmentalist.

In another of our regular features on avid park-goers, we spoke to Zoe about her passion for all things vintage and your Park Lands.

V8's Limit Park Planning

V8's Limit Park Planning

City Council planning for the future of your Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) has been hampered by the State Government's insistence that anachronistic carbon-emission motor sport must take priority in your Park.

To satisfy the State Government's devotion to carbon emission motor racing, a new draft plan envisages even more "new bitumen surfaces” within your Park.