The City of Adelaide is being urged to become more ambitious with proposals to restore lost areas of your Park Lands.
The City’s Draft Strategic Plan 2024-28 is out for public consultation until 20 November.
Be a Lungs Lifeguard - Sun 12 November
Swimming is great for your lungs. Mature established trees are also great for your lungs. But the State Government doesn’t want you to have both.
Premier Peter Malinauskas and Lucy Hood want to chop down dozens of trees in your Park Lands.
Help to get something much better. Come to your Park 2 on Sunday 12 November, at 1pm, to be a “lungs lifeguard”.
Park Ambassador curious and movie premiere
Come and try it! Find out about joining our team of Park Ambassadors in 2024.
An information session on Monday 6 November will show you how easy it is to be the eyes and ears and voice of one Park within your Adelaide Park Lands. You can also enjoy the first screening of “World’s Only” our soon-to-be-released documentary.
Will Canberra Protect?
Restoration: Back to Square One
Pleased to meet you, Tully
Vandals strike at Kaurna names
"Urgent Action" plea for trees
Just weeks before State Government-contracted chainsaws are set to start tearing down dozens of mature trees in your Adelaide Park Lands, a Labor-chaired Parliamentary Committee has urged the opposite.
The Committee’s recommendations will be seen as an embarrassment to the State Government as it prepares to attack two sites within your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Will Canberra Protect? Respond by 31 October
Talking (arrow) points
Know your Park Lands plants: sticky hop-bush
Demolishing a "sense of place"
Our contributing cultural historian, Dr Noris Ioannou, laments the upcoming demolition of heritage-listed police barracks and historic olive trees in your Park 27.
Dr Ioannou argues that destruction of these landmarks will prevent future South Australians from being able to step back in time and see life through the eyes of those from the past.
Lord Mayor's stunning admission
Place to reflect
Members of the Stolen Generations now have a dedicated space in the city to reflect and connect, with a Place of Reflection opening last month in Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14).
At the centre of the space is a bronze sculpture, created by renowned Ngarrindjerri weaver Aunty Yvonne Koolmatrie and South Australian designer Karl Meyer.
Dancing Monsters in Mirnu Wirra
While some fear monsters lurking in the dark, an event organiser says the real ‘monster’ is our growing anxiety around heading outdoors.
Daniel Havey is encouraging people to reconnect with nature after dark, by dancing in costume, in Golden Wattle Park / Mirnu Wirra (Park 21W of your Adelaide Park Lands) on Sunday, October 15.
Stay-at-home possums: Scared, or contented?
Aquatic Centre: Council hits pause
Adelaide City Council has paused processes that might green-light the State Government’s proposed new $135 million megalith aquatic and commercial centre in your Park Lands.
In deciding the fate of your Park Lands, the City Council is caught between the demands of the State Government, and the clearly-expressed wishes of its own community.
Premier: We're not at War
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.
