A new chapter has been written in the playbook for how professional lobbyists can take over and commercialise your Park Lands.

To turn an Open, Green, Public space into an area subservient to professional sport, all you need is two State Government heavyweights on your side.

Work is expected to begin later this year on renovating and partially re-building the kiosk in Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14) at the start of what would be a 21-year lease.

On the eastern side of your Adelaide Park Lands, there’s a by-election in the State electorate of Dunstan on 23 March.

We’ve posed six Park Lands questions to each of the three main candidates, so you can evaluate their responses.

Kadaltilla / the Park Lands Authority has signed off on new five-year extensions to each one of eight different privately-leased areas of your Park Lands.

Controversy has erupted over a City Council decision to reject a new permanent fence around a soccer field on your Ellis Park / Tampawardli (Park 24).

Accusations from the Premier, levelled at the City Council, have diverted attention from the question of whether your Park Lands should be for community sport, or for commercial, professional sport.

Premier Peter Malinauskas has confirmed that another area, legally part of your Park Lands, will soon be handed over to private developers.

There’s been no public consultation, no tender, nothing except secret negotiations behind closed doors, but the heirs and shareholders of the late Lang Walker are about to become much richer by building over land taken from your Park Lands.

Who likes fresh olives? It turns out that some of your Park Lands possums really love them, and others don’t.

Here’s the latest report from our Park Lands possum researcher, Tara McKenzie.

Some Adelaide City Councillors have belatedly realised that fences around sporting facilities in your Park Lands discourage public access.

It remains to be seen whether this newfound awareness will translate into any policy changes to encourage access to your Open, Green, Public heritage.

Our series of stories, Know Your Park Lands Art, introduces you to various creative displays within your Adelaide Park Lands.

This statue, “Simpson and his donkey” was unveiled 14 years ago, in Angas Gardens in your Park 12.

Another sliver of your Park Lands has quietly disappeared under concrete.

There’s been no Government announcement, but it’s another of the ongoing series of cuts that are gradually eroding your Park Lands.

Federal Labor MP Steve Georganas has delivered a veiled criticism of recent State Government attacks on your Adelaide Park Lands.

Speaking after 25 volunteers helped to clean up rubbish in Bonython Park, the prominent Labor backbencher called for an end to any encroachments on your Park Lands.