Your Adelaide Park Lands have been buzzing with life during the Fringe festival, but it’s not the occasion to wear your best shoes.
Foot traffic and extreme heat have turned some Park Lands Fringe sites dusty and brown, rather than green.
For 16-year-old Sophie, the Adelaide Park Lands are more than a park — they’re her backyard, her running track and part of her home.
For almost a decade, Trees for Life’s Regenerate program has been bringing people together in the Adelaide Park Lands through Bushcare, nature, culture and connection.
We talk with Tricia Curtis about how caring for nature can also mean caring for ourselves—and why the Park Lands are such an important place for community wellbeing.
CONTENTS
1. Editorial: From the President: The Movement to Stop the Chop Is Growing
2. Members are Ready for Battle: Park Lands Association Forum
3. Park Poetry - Flying foxes (Fruit Bats)
4. Pic of the Month – Dr Bird Nerd
5. Charles Sturt and Prospect Council Join the Campaign for Your Lands
6. The Pen Is Mightier than! 28,000 signatures and counting
7. The First Hints of Spring: Guided Walk Through Red Gum Park / Karra Wirra
8. OPINION: Time to Debunk Some Misinformation
9. SE City Residents Raise Concerns About Proposed MotoGP in the Park Lands
10. The Mosquito vs the Elephant: Save Festival Plaza Update
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.
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.