Mixed messaging has come from the City of Adelaide: creating uncertainty about whether the proposed destruction of 585 trees in your Possum Park / Pirltawardli is being resisted, or welcomed at the Town Hall.

Towering, shade‑casting, and endlessly photogenic, the Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla) is one of Australia’s most recognisable trees; and an iconic feature of your Adelaide Park Lands.

The message to “Stop the Chop” might finally be hitting the desk of Premier Peter Malinauskas, who is still refusing to release the hit list of the 585 trees that he wants to destroy in the urban forested golf course of Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).

Shiny bronze wings, and a distinctive head crest make this bird one of the standout inhabitants of your Adelaide Park Lands.

Kadaltilla / the Park Lands Authority has chosen to highlight some very old examples of Park Lands “returned” to Open, Green, Public, while failing to acknowledge dozens of more recent, and huge Park Lands losses.

There was a time, not that long ago, when a “Park” meant a place of calm, an opportunity to connect with nature in peaceful reflection. Not any more, at least not in Adelaide.

As the campaign to “Stop the Chop” gears up, Premier Peter Malinauskas is doubling down on his threats to fence off your urban forested golf courses in Possum Park / Pirltawardli for ever-longer periods each year.

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has refused to intervene to protect the National Heritage values of your Adelaide Park Lands, even as construction of a skyscraper gets under way on the Festival Plaza in your Park 26.

Kadaltilla / the Park Lands Authority has made available an interactive map so you can zoom in on, and find out about City Council projects that are underway, or being planned within your Adelaide Park Lands.

If you’ve been visiting the southern Park Lands in recent days you might have noticed careful works beginning around two cherished historical features: the two pergolas at Peppermint Park / Wita Wirra (Park 18) and Veale Park / Walyu Yarta (Park 21).

As we count down the days to the State election on 21 March, there is an urgent task at hand.

Political parties and election candidates need to know that you LOVE YOUR PARK LANDS.

There’s been a change at the top. Three new members have been welcomed to the leadership team of the Adelaide Park Lands Association; and we have a new (Acting) President!

There are fears that decades-old trees in Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli (Park 27) might be about to die, after irrigation was cut off just before the current heat wave.

One of South Australia's most influential professional associations is endeavouring to turn protection for your Park Lands into a State election issue.

The opening last weekend of the new Adelaide Aquatic Centre is a poignant reminder of the State Government's four broken promises, and its failure of imagination.

You could have had BOTH a new Aquatic Centre AND a fully-restored, re-greened Park, but the State Government refused to even consider that win-win possibility.

City Council staff are considering how to help protect grey-headed flying foxes, that during heat waves dip into, then can't get out of the Rymill Park lake.

Who’s laughing at you, at dawn and dusk, in your Adelaide Park Lands? You can’t mistake that sound.