If you wanted to build a new house, a shed or a carport, you would need to comply with planning rules.

However if you are the State Government, and you want to build on the Adelaide Park Lands, you have no such constraints.

Tickets are selling fast for the quirky and curious Park Quiz, on 9 October, in support of the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

There are several unrelated construction projects either under way, or recently completed in your Park Lands.

Opinions will differ about which ones are good, or bad, or ugly. See the pics to make up your mind.

The Chief Executive of the State Department of Environment and Water has refused to reveal the peppercorn rent paid by an Adelaide charity, for a one-hectare produce garden in your Park Lands.

Only a few weeks after the biggest campaign of tree destruction ever seen in your Park Lands, the State Government now boasts that it is protecting urban trees!

City Council administrative staff have been researching the answer to a simple question: How much of your Park Lands has been lost, since the election of the Malinauskas Labor Government in March 2022?

ABC-TV archivists have unearthed a rare 1956 home video of a long-forgotten former tourist attraction in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Preparations are under way for the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

But why do we do it? Why do we run a prestigious biennial Art Prize? And why do we encourage so many different types of artist, and different types of artwork?

For five years, the Adelaide Park Lands Association has been lobbying the City Council for permission to re-green one or more disused patches of bitumen in your Park Lands.

This Tuesday 13 August, one re-greening opportunity will come to a vote.

Please - contact City Councillors now, to ensure the project gets the go-ahead.

Some fine words from 2021, seemingly forgotten in 2024.

Deferral, delay, procrastination, postponement. There always seems to be a reason why your Park Lands can’t be protected, NOW.

Check out the protection opportunities that seem to be always on the back burner.