The Adelaide City Council has belatedly joined the battle to save your Festival Plaza from being dominated by a 38-storey private office building.

However your intervention is also needed to save your Festival Plaza and Adelaide’s National Heritage sites.

APA has queried what appears to be a proposed two-thirds cut in funding for maintenance of your Adelaide Park Lands.

Please, before Tuesday 27 May, send a short email to the City Council, to support your Park Lands with feedback on the Council’s Draft 2025-26 Budget and Annual Business Plan.

The 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is over. Or is it?

The virtual reality exhibition continues with four prize-winning artworks among dozens of stunning artworks still available to view or buy.

Premier Peter 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 our second suggested alternative option, for the Premier to consider.

APA’s new President, Sarah Russo, brings a deep love of land, nature and public place to her leadership.

Find out what led her to this role, and her ambition to achieve positive outcomes — for people, for biodiversity, and for your Park Lands.

How would New Yorkers feel if areas of their Central Park were devoted to acres of car parking?

In Adelaide, the City Council has been formally advised to continue allowing thousands of cars to continue parking on your Park Lands during the annual Royal Show.

Adelaide University researcher Tara McKenzie is part of a team investigating a disease that’s disfiguring and killing possums in Whitmore Square / Iparrityi in your Adelaide Park Lands

The Trees for Life “Regenerate” program of activities in your Park Lands is more popular than ever. Early bookings are essential!

Textile designer Shalini Kacker says she’s “ecstatic” to win the $2,500 People’s Choice Prize at the conclusion of the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

The exhibition has been packed away, but a virtual gallery remains on-line, with sales still open until 30 June.

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.