Our series of stories, Know Your Park Lands Art, guides you through various creative displays within your Adelaide Park Lands.
This time, we’re focusing on an iconic statue, where many joggers pause to take a breath and drink in the view.
Despite a promise of “extensive consultation” the State Government is still with-holding most of its plans for the North Adelaide golf course in the urban forested Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).
You can urge the Premier to identify every one of the 585 mature trees that he admits he wants to destroy.
Dear Premier, why won’t you call me by my name? If you are going to chop down my trees, why won’t you look me in the forest and tell me straight? Yours sincerely, Pirltawardli ….
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.
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.
A cascade of Freedom of Information applications is aiming to find out why there’s been little to no progress in the campaign to get UNESCO World Heritage listing of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Self-styled “transparency warrior” former Senator Rex Patrick has fired off several FOI applications trying to find out who or what is holding up the process.
There’s something about the idea of a secret garden that entices.
Did you know that such a garden is tucked away, for local residents and business owners, a stone's throw from your Park Lands, within the Adelaide CBD?
While some of the Adelaide Park Lands has been lost to development in recent times, a few city-dwellers have reclaimed a bit of bitumen elsewhere as a green space – and they’re looking for more members to help champion it.