Shane Sody
"None so blind"

There is plenty of evidence about:

  • the importance of protecting mature trees, and any city’s tree canopy;

  • that South Australians want to see their Adelaide Park Lands protected;

  • that the international LIV Golf tour is financially unsustainable and on the brink of collapse.

Yet the State Government refuses to see.

"None so blind"
Shane Sody
Bitumen or butterflies?

Butterfly conservation advocates say a rare Chequered Copper Butterfly colony “will not survive” in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) if the State Government goes ahead with plans for a Grand Prix motorcycle circuit alongside its habitat.

Bitumen or butterflies?
Shane Sody
No tree too big for Government chainsaws

No tree in your Adelaide Park Lands is significant enough to be safe from State Government plans to bulldoze Parks for temporary, elite FIFO sports events.

No tree too big for Government chainsaws
Shane Sody
Stop the Chop rally, 28 Feb

A rally on Saturday 28 February might be your last opportunity to prevent irreversible losses within a massive 90 hectares of your Adelaide Park Lands.

Stop the Chop rally, 28 Feb
Shane Sody
Release the hit list - Council backs APA's call

The Adelaide City Council has joined APA’s call to Premier, Peter Malinauskas to release the hit list of 585 trees that he says he wants to destroy in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).

Release the hit list - Council backs APA's call

Brewery site purchase raises hopes

Brewery site purchase raises hopes

Reports that the State Government is close to finalising a deal for the old West End Brewery site at Thebarton has raised hopes that infrastructure developments threatened for your Park Lands might be switched to this alternative site.

Meanwhile, the City Council has deferred a vote on handing over a three-hectare Park Lands site for a $135 million, two-storey megalith aquatic and commercial centre.

Waterworks and bricks

Waterworks and bricks

Have you noticed this strange small octagonal building in Rundle Park / Kadlitpina (Park 13) near the corner of Botanic Road and Dequetteville Terrace?

It’s on a site that was restored to your Park Lands in the 1980s; and is a rare surviving example of patterned brickwork that was commonly used in the late 1800s.

As well, he delves into how Adelaide became the first fully septic-drained city in the nation.

Exposed: "smaller footprint" BS

Exposed: "smaller footprint" BS

The Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax-Smith is one of the many who’ve been deceived by State Government propaganda, claiming that a $135 million new Aquatic and commercial centre would have a reduced “footprint” over your Open Green Public Park Lands.

Councillors, voting this month on a massive Park Lands land grab, are being urged to listen to their constituents and see through a barrage of State Government misinformation.