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?
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.
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.
Wild olives can be environmental weeds. But that doesn’t make Adelaide’s historic, managed olive groves disposable.
The 1872 grove in King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15) is threatened by the proposed MotoGP circuit.
But, we can control invasive olives and protect our living heritage.
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.
