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.
Premier Peter Malinauskas says his Government has been subject to an “unfair characterisation that suggests that we've declared war on the Park Lands.”
The Premier has received the names of 7,500 people who’ve signed a petition, urging him to choose a win-win brownfield site for a new $135 million two-storey Aquatic and commercial centre.
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.
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.
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.
