Several State Government promises about your Adelaide Park Lands have not been delivered.
If you love your Park Lands, please help us remind the Premier of the promises that he and his team have made.
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 Park Lands Need your support on the morning of Sunday 9 July.
On that morning, please help us plant up to 4,800 of these Park Lands supporters into the grass of Denise Norton Park/ Pardipardinyilla (Park 2).
“Plant to Protect” - to show how many people have signed up for a win-win: demanding both a new Aquatic Centre on a brownfield site; and to fully protect this Park.
The City of Adelaide has become the first major sponsor to recommit to the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, by including a renewed $15,000 sponsorship in its 2023-24 budget.
See what other Park Lands matters were dealt with, in what the Council describes as a budget to “support future sustainability and City pride.”
Rewilded parts of your Adelaide Park Lands have been in the spotlight recently, after a successful community effort protect an area that had been targeted for destruction.
SA rewilding facilitator Tiffany Schultz speaks to APA’s Carla Caruso about the need for “flourishing ecosystems” in your Park Lands and beyond.
Debate about a new Adelaide Aquatic Centre has dragged on for many years. However in the next three months it will come down to a simple choice.
Will the State Government and the City Council Restore and Protect? Or will they combine to Restore and Attack? One outcome would be 28 times better than the other.
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.
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?