Thilina Gunasekara
Northern suburbs students speak up for the Park ...

Living in Adelaide’s northern suburbs hasn’t stopped St Columba College students Alexa, Emily, and Olivia from speaking up for the Park Lands. Through conversations with fellow students, they collected sixty-eight petition signatures and shared why these spaces matter to their generation.

Northern suburbs students speak up for the Park Lands
Thilina Gunasekara
A First Grebe to Remember: Australasian Grebe

Sue Wincott shares the delight of spotting her first Australasian Grebe at Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi (Park 16). With adults diving nearby and a tiny youngster on its nest among the reeds, this memorable introduction to the wetland and the birdlife that makes it special.  

A First Grebe to Remember: Australasian Grebe
Thilina Gunasekara
Impacts on community health of the MotoGP in ...

What will the proposed MotoGP mean for community health? Margaret Brown looks beyond the economic arguments to the potential impacts of increased noise, air pollution, traffic congestion, tree loss and the disruption of green space. She argues that the health costs of bringing more motor racing into the Adelaide Park Lands deserve much greater scrutiny. 

Impacts on community health of the MotoGP in the Adelaide Parklands/Pakapakanthi
Thilina Gunasekara
A Tale of Two Cities: A Sporting Nation Needs ...

Australia loves sport. But should major sporting events come at the expense of our public green spaces? In Brisbane and Adelaide, communities are fighting to protect precious park lands from major developments. Different governments, different projects, but remarkably similar battles. 

A Tale of Two Cities: A Sporting Nation Needs Green Space
Thilina Gunasekara
Fumes or plumes? Why not bird tourism?

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. 

Fumes or plumes? Why not bird tourism?

Exposing Secrets

Exposing Secrets

Do you wonder how vested interests get approval, time after time, to take away slices of your Park Lands? How did we get to the stage where it seems that no laws offer any protection?

The answers to these questions would fill a book or two. Now, those books have been published.

You'll lose more, for longer

You'll lose more, for longer

Next summer, your opportunities to enjoy Open, Green, Public Park Lands with family and friends will be restricted more than ever by Premier, Peter Malinauskas.

Over 2024-25, the Premier is planning to take even more of your eastern Park Lands for an even longer period than ever before, to cater for a four-day taxpayer-subsidised festival of carbon emission motor racing.

Pleased to meet you, Jaynie

Pleased to meet you, Jaynie

Continuing our series, celebrating those who frequent your Park Lands, we introduce Jaynie Francis-Sandford.

The 40-year-old mum and hobbyist photographer from Elizabeth Downs enjoys regular park outings, often accompanied by her young son. But one park, in particular, is the location of a romantic milestone for Jaynie.