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7 November 2026
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
3 November 2026
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
28 October 2026
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
22 October 2026
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
14 October 2026
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?
Christel Mex
16 March 2025

Tram parking in Veale Park

Christel Mex
16 March 2025
Tram parking in Veale Park

Trams will be parked in Veale Park / Walyu Yarta for several months while the Glenelg tramway is undergoing major upgrades to remove level crossings.

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Christel Mex
15 March 2025

Dominant sports infrastructure

Christel Mex
15 March 2025
Dominant sports infrastructure

More high-powered lighting is coming to another sports field within your Park Lands.

Sports infrastructure now dominates more and more of what was once your Open, Green, Public land.

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Christel Mex
14 March 2025

Will they LIV or Die?

Christel Mex
14 March 2025
Will they LIV or Die?

There's uncertainty about the future of the three North Adelaide Golf Courses, on Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands) and the 85 species identified so far amongst the biodiversity of that Park.

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Christel Mex
14 March 2025

Four days to install

Christel Mex
14 March 2025
Four days to install

The next fortnight marks the culmination of the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

After a Lord Mayoral reception for artists next Wednesday, installation of finalists’ artworks will be spread over four days at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

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Christel Mex
12 March 2025

A thriving pocket forest

Christel Mex
12 March 2025
A thriving pocket forest

The green thumbs in “Green Pakapakanthi” are thrilled with the success of a six-month-old “pocket forest”.

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Christel Mex
10 March 2025

Know Your Park Lands Art: The Forest of Dreams

Christel Mex
10 March 2025
Know Your Park Lands Art: The Forest of Dreams

Do you dream of forests? An artwork in part of your Adelaide Park Lands invites you to do so.

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Christel Mex
28 February 2025

Even fences are commercial now

Christel Mex
28 February 2025
Even fences are commercial now

The commercialisation of your Park Lands is picking up pace. Following the Premier’s lead, you will soon see commercial ads on permanent fencing designed to keep you off parts of your Park Lands.

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Christel Mex
27 February 2025

What Bird is that? New Holland Honeyeater

Christel Mex
27 February 2025
What Bird is that?  New Holland Honeyeater

Meet a plucky, vivacious little bird with enormous attitude - the New Holland honeyeater can be found in your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Christel Mex
26 February 2025

Art Prize Finalists confirmed

Christel Mex
26 February 2025
Art Prize Finalists confirmed

Preparations are underway for an exhibition, at the Adelaide Festival Centre, of 88 artworks, carefully chosen as the finalists, in the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

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Christel Mex
24 February 2025

You and Your Park Lands 2025

Christel Mex
24 February 2025
You and Your Park Lands 2025

Take our short survey to tell us about you and your Park Lands. What’s important to you? How could we improve our role?

It’ll take about nine minutes to choose your responses; and there are ten prizes of Park Lands merchandise to be won, for completed surveys.

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Christel Mex
23 February 2025

Plaza giveaway - update 23 February

Christel Mex
23 February 2025
Plaza giveaway - update 23 February

Your opportunity to object to the re-zoning of Festival Plaza - for a 40-storey office tower - expires on Wednesday 26 February.

Six members of State Parliament represent the last bulwark against the most blatant commercial sellout in the history of your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Christel Mex
22 February 2025

Digging up Whitmore Square

Christel Mex
22 February 2025
Digging up Whitmore Square

Why have pavers and garden beds in Whitmore Square / Iparrityi been ripped up, only three years after they were established?

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Christel Mex
21 February 2025

Remember when: Swimming in the Torrens

Christel Mex
21 February 2025
Remember when:  Swimming in the Torrens

Once upon a time, the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari was a central hub for swimming and fishing within your Adelaide Park Lands. Your grandparents might be in these photos.

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Christel Mex
21 February 2025

Park Lands Senator?

Christel Mex
21 February 2025
Park Lands Senator?

Senate candidate Rex Patrick has promised that if he’s elected this year, he’ll be a “Senator for the Adelaide Park Lands” to advance the case for World Heritage listing.

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Christel Mex
19 February 2025

What he's NOT telling you

Christel Mex
19 February 2025
What he's NOT telling you

The Premier, Peter Malinauskas is remaining tight-lipped about how your Adelaide Park Lands would be affected by proposals to "re-develop" the golf courses in Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1).

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Christel Mex
13 February 2025

Path upgrade nearing completion

Christel Mex
13 February 2025
Path upgrade nearing completion

Work is nearing completion on a project to renew a section of the Linear Park shared-use pathway, just north of the Adelaide Zoo in your Park 11.

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Christel Mex
12 February 2025

Join the Park Guardians

Christel Mex
12 February 2025
Join the Park Guardians

Become the eyes and ears of one part of your Adelaide Park Lands.

Join the new team of “Park Guardians”.

Come to an introductory information session on Monday, 24 February.

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Christel Mex
12 February 2025

Two interactive maps

Christel Mex
12 February 2025
Two interactive maps

The City of Adelaide has followed the lead of the Adelaide Park Lands Association in producing an interactive map, to help you appreciate and explore.

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Christel Mex
12 February 2025

Cultural burn site tour

Christel Mex
12 February 2025
Cultural burn site tour

The Board of Kadaltilla / Adelaide Park Lands Authority has been inspecting sites for another Kaurna cultural burn in your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Christel Mex
12 February 2025

Judging under way

Christel Mex
12 February 2025
Judging under way

Our five eminent Art Prize judges have spent the past week carefully looking at all of the more than 320 entries to the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

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