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* Explore
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> Explore - Trail Guides
* Inspire
* Protect
* Restore
Features of Your Park Lands
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December 15, 2025
Shane Sody
Xmas - New Year in your Park Lands

It’s holiday time - so time to explore your Park Lands, especially the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of a dozen dates over the next few weeks.

Xmas - New Year in your Park Lands
December 14, 2025
Shane Sody
304 down, and counting

More than 300 trees have been felled, so far, to make room for a three billion dollar hospital on your Park Lands, but much more tree destruction is on the way.

304 down, and counting
November 29, 2025
Shane Sody
See it before it disappears

You’re invited! Please come to inspect, first-hand, the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of 15 dates over the next few weeks.

See it before it disappears
November 2, 2025
Shane Sody
Five-storey golf fences required

Fences or nets as high as a five-storey building will be required in your Adelaide Park Lands, to safeguard the public from wayward golf balls hit from a State Government driving range.

Five-storey golf fences required
September 11, 2025
Shane Sody
Canopy shredding

A mockup plan for a new championship golf course in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands) has indicated a minimum canopy loss of 54% from the Park’s 9,000 trees.

The State Government is now under pressure to defend or justify its looming tree massacre, being planned to cater for a small number of multi-millionaire FIFO golfers.

Canopy shredding
Shane Sody
April 7, 2024

Adelaide Nature challenge

Shane Sody
April 7, 2024
Adelaide Nature challenge

Save a day at the end of April to make citizen science observations in your Park Lands.

The City Nature Challenge is returning for a four-day period (Friday 26th to Monday 29th April)

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Shane Sody
March 30, 2024

Steps forward, Steps back

Shane Sody
March 30, 2024
Steps forward, Steps back

Small steps towards improved access to your Park Lands are being more than offset by more and larger demands for effective privatisation of many other sites.

Months-long “temporary” fencing is only part of a growing push to commercialise parts of your Park Lands for the long-term.

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Shane Sody
March 30, 2024

Bigger than ever on Facebook

Shane Sody
March 30, 2024
Bigger than ever on Facebook

The City of Adelaide has followed the lead of the Adelaide Park Lands Association by becoming more active promoting your Park Lands on social media, including Facebook.

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Shane Sody
March 30, 2024

State Gov't land grabs "most pressing issue" - survey

Shane Sody
March 30, 2024
State Gov't land grabs "most pressing issue"  - survey

Hundreds of survey respondents have identified the State Government as the biggest threat to your Adelaide Park Lands.
The 2024 Park Lands Survey results, from both supporters and the general public, will be used to plan our next initiatives, as we Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore in your Open, Green, Public Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
March 30, 2024

More Secret deals

Shane Sody
March 30, 2024
More Secret deals

The State Government and the City Council are negotiating in secret about 'commercial-in-confidence' usage of another part of your Park Lands.

New licences associated with Government development of a new Aquatic Centre are bogged down in secrecy, involving commercial interests.

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Shane Sody
March 29, 2024

We're in the History Festival

Shane Sody
March 29, 2024
We're in the History Festival

The Adelaide Park Lands Association is proud to be one of the many community groups taking part in South Australia's History Festival again, this year.

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Guest User
March 29, 2024

Underplanting encouraged

Guest User
March 29, 2024
Underplanting encouraged

More underplanting beneath big trees in your Adelaide Park Lands would help discourage activities directly under them and manage the level of risk from falling limbs.

That’s according to Joanna Wells, who’s an outreach coordinator at Conservation SA and a councillor with the City of Mitcham.

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Shane Sody
March 28, 2024

Reclaim Light Square

Shane Sody
March 28, 2024
Reclaim Light Square

It’s time to reclaim Adelaide’s Squares for people, not traffic.

The City Council wants your views on the future of Light Square / Wauwi.

Your Park Lands can be so much better with six lanes of traffic diverted around, not through, one of your Open, Green, Public spaces.

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Shane Sody
March 26, 2024

Seven years of lockout ended

Shane Sody
March 26, 2024
Seven years of lockout ended

A pedestrian and cycling route through your north-western Park Lands, blocked off for the past seven years, has been quietly re-opened.

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Shane Sody
March 25, 2024

What Bird is that? - Rainbow Lorikeet

Shane Sody
March 25, 2024
What Bird is that? - Rainbow Lorikeet

How much do you know about the birds in your Adelaide Park Lands?

In this, the second instalment of our series, What Bird is That? we take a close look at the raucous, brilliant, eye-catching rainbow lorikeet.

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Shane Sody
March 22, 2024

Tribute to David Plumridge

Shane Sody
March 22, 2024
Tribute to David Plumridge

There have been multiple tributes paid in recent days to former Deputy Lord Mayor, David Plumridge, who died recently aged 91.

One of his close friends, author John Bridgland, has penned a personal tribute that reflects upon David Plumridge’s legacy of protecting your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Guest User
March 21, 2024

Urban Rec: social sport

Guest User
March 21, 2024
Urban Rec: social sport

There’s a new trend for people wanting to play sport in your Park Lands as a social activity, without having to pay club membership fees or commit to organised training.

APA’s Rhia Daniel investigates.

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Guest User
March 18, 2024

E-scooters - pain for some

Guest User
March 18, 2024
E-scooters - pain for some

You would’ve seen them parked alongside your Park Lands or riders zipping down footpaths on them.

E-scooters — some love the convenient mode of transport (and the ease of hiring them), others hate them.

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Shane Sody
March 15, 2024

Vote for your favourite tree

Shane Sody
March 15, 2024
Vote for your favourite tree

Voting is underway in the South Australian Tree of the Year competition. If you appreciate any of your local large trees, you have until the end of March to lodge a vote at 20metretrees.org

Our suggestion: a 150-year-old river red gum in Park 15.

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Shane Sody
March 15, 2024

Fence gone! Opening up!

Shane Sody
March 15, 2024
Fence gone!  Opening up!

Twelve months of advocacy has produced a great result to improve access to your Helen Mayo Park.

A useless, 300-metre fence that has been blocking access to part of your Park Lands for decades has finally been removed.

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Shane Sody
March 14, 2024

Labor snubs Park Lands questions

Shane Sody
March 14, 2024
Labor snubs Park Lands questions

SA Labor has snubbed a series of Park Lands questions posed to the major candidates for a by-election next week in the inner suburban seat of Dunstan.

If you are in the Dunstan electorate, you might like to check (before polling day) on how each of the three main candidates responded to six simple questions about your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
March 13, 2024

Celebrate your urban forests

Shane Sody
March 13, 2024
Celebrate your urban forests

Next week is a time to reflect and give thanks for the few urban forests that remain in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands.

On the International Day of Forests, will the State Government re-think its plans to destroy one of Adelaide’s few urban mini-forests?

6 Comments
Shane Sody
March 9, 2024

City Dirt Upgrade coming

Shane Sody
March 9, 2024
City Dirt Upgrade coming

A major upgrade is on the way for the popular “City Dirt” bike tracks in Park 20 of your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Guest User
March 8, 2024

Heatwave worry for bats at WOMAD

Guest User
March 8, 2024
Heatwave worry for bats at WOMAD

The chair of a bat rescue organisation is alarmed that this weekend’s WOMAdelaide Festival in Botanic Park (Park 11) will add to the animals’ stress from the heatwave and increase the number of deaths.

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Shane Sody
March 7, 2024

Conservatory's future questioned

Shane Sody
March 7, 2024
Conservatory's future questioned

Questions have been raised about the future of the Bicentennial Conservatory in the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

Despite a Strategic Plan calling for a “re-imagining” of the Conservatory as a “Martian biodome” the Garden’s Director says “there are no concrete plans at the moment” to replace the building’s tropical plants.

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