A memorial service has been held in your Adelaide Park Lands to mark the lives lost to workplace fatalities.

Unions SA held a commemoration on Monday 28 April in Park 27A of your Adelaide Park Lands.

An innovative system is being used to keep the lake in Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14) free from blue-green algae.

The City of Adelaide has installed a “rain garden” which, despite its name, doesn’t actually need rain to do its job, cleaning the lake’s water 24 hours a day.

Our new leader, Sarah Russo, is committed to “strengthen advocacy, boost community involvement, and support initiatives that keep your Park Lands both protected and active for everyone to enjoy.”

Meet the new leadership team for your Adelaide Park Lands Association.

Here’s another instalment in our series, Know Your Park Lands Plants, where we introduce you to the myriad of species that populate your Adelaide Park Lands. Today, it’s a semi-aquatic plant with delicate pink flowers.

Premier Malinauskas can capture the economic benefits of the LIV Golf tourism drawcard, while also protecting trees and public access to your Adelaide Park Lands. How? By choosing an alternative site to build a new championship golf course. Here’s the first option he could consider.

What if the key to Adelaide’s resilience lies beneath your feet?

As climate change intensifies and water scarcity looms, Adelaide’s water management systems are crucial to the success or otherwise of sustaining plants in your Park Lands.​

The Australian Heritage Council is being urged to intervene in what’s increasingly being acknowledged as the most blatant commercial sellout of your Park Lands: a skyscraper on Festival Plaza.

If you haven’t yet seen the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre, then mark in your diary either Easter Saturday, 19 April, or the following Saturday 26 April.

Or, take virtual 3D tour at any time!

The City of Adelaide has taken up our idea of a mapped resource identifying and given you information about most of the tens of thousands of trees that it looks after in your Park Lands.

Zoom in, or search the trees in your Park Lands, find out what's growing, report any tree damage or ill-health, and even write a love letter to any tree!

For a third year in succession, our Guided Walks in your Adelaide Park Lands are making a contribution to the annual SA History Festival in May.

There’s a debate about this bird; perhaps the most visually stunning of all birds found in your Adelaide Park Lands. Is the Eastern Rosella native to this area, or was it introduced?

It is amazing what you can see in a dry creek bed. The stubbornly damp bed of the South Park Lands Creek is a part of a series of interconnected refuges, where life is waiting out Adelaide’s long dry spell.

Celebrated artist Margaret Ambridge has carried off the $20,000 first prize in the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, for her charcoal and ink drawing: “Bush for Life” .

Invited sponsors and donors mingled with the artists and their guests, at the Festival Centre on 1 April, as 11 prizes were awarded at the opening of the biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

Temporary grandstands, temporary car parking - is it time to re-classify this as a temporary Park?

Thank you Judith Grimmett - going above and beyond what we expected, when creating the role of “Park Guardian” !

Water from the River Torrens /Karrawirra Pari was being tested on Monday 31 March after renewed fears about water quality.

Hundreds of survey respondents have identified the State Government as the biggest threat to your Adelaide Park Lands.
The 2025 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.

Social media followers have slammed Premier Peter Malinauskas over his refusal to acknowledge that a “skyscraper” now under construction by private developers, is on a site confiscated from your Adelaide Park Lands.