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June 20, 2025
Shane Sody
Takeover to Build Over

The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands is designed to clear the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.

The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.

Takeover to Build Over
June 6, 2025
Shane Sody
Protect Possum Park - gathering pace

Our “Possum Park Protection Platoon” is planning the next stage in our fight to protect Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands from State Government chainsaws that are threatening hundreds of trees in this unique urban forest.

Protect Possum Park - gathering pace
May 21, 2025
Shane Sody
Rally to Protect 104 species

It's time to PROTECT one Park and its 104 species.

At 11am on June 5, World Environment Day, come to the steps of Parliament House, North Terrace, to help PROTECT Possum Park.

Expose the Government’s LIV Golf excuse for yet another Park Lands commercialisation attack.

Rally to Protect 104 species
April 15, 2025
Shane Sody
Pillaging Parks for millionaire FIFOs

The hashtag #ProtectParksPete will soon be trending on social media. If you Love Your Park Lands, help us spread this hashtag, to bring it to the notice of the Premier, Peter Malinauskas as he prepares plans to slash more trees.

Pillaging Parks for millionaire FIFOs
March 31, 2025
Shane Sody
Whatever it takes

The Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has a vision: that your Park Lands must be profit centres, and that therefore Open, Green, Public land (as well as trees and biodiversity) must be subservient, or sacrificed to money-making imperatives, such as LIV golf.

Whatever it takes
Shane Sody
March 30, 2024

More Secret deals

Shane Sody
March 30, 2024
More Secret deals

The State Government and the City Council are negotiating in secret about 'commercial-in-confidence' usage of another part of your Park Lands.

New licences associated with Government development of a new Aquatic Centre are bogged down in secrecy, involving commercial interests.

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Shane Sody
March 29, 2024

We're in the History Festival

Shane Sody
March 29, 2024
We're in the History Festival

The Adelaide Park Lands Association is proud to be one of the many community groups taking part in South Australia's History Festival again, this year.

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Guest User
March 29, 2024

Underplanting encouraged

Guest User
March 29, 2024
Underplanting encouraged

More underplanting beneath big trees in your Adelaide Park Lands would help discourage activities directly under them and manage the level of risk from falling limbs.

That’s according to Joanna Wells, who’s an outreach coordinator at Conservation SA and a councillor with the City of Mitcham.

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Shane Sody
March 28, 2024

Reclaim Light Square

Shane Sody
March 28, 2024
Reclaim Light Square

It’s time to reclaim Adelaide’s Squares for people, not traffic.

The City Council wants your views on the future of Light Square / Wauwi.

Your Park Lands can be so much better with six lanes of traffic diverted around, not through, one of your Open, Green, Public spaces.

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Shane Sody
March 26, 2024

Seven years of lockout ended

Shane Sody
March 26, 2024
Seven years of lockout ended

A pedestrian and cycling route through your north-western Park Lands, blocked off for the past seven years, has been quietly re-opened.

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Shane Sody
March 25, 2024

What Bird is that? - Rainbow Lorikeet

Shane Sody
March 25, 2024
What Bird is that? - Rainbow Lorikeet

How much do you know about the birds in your Adelaide Park Lands?

In this, the second instalment of our series, What Bird is That? we take a close look at the raucous, brilliant, eye-catching rainbow lorikeet.

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Shane Sody
March 22, 2024

Tribute to David Plumridge

Shane Sody
March 22, 2024
Tribute to David Plumridge

There have been multiple tributes paid in recent days to former Deputy Lord Mayor, David Plumridge, who died recently aged 91.

One of his close friends, author John Bridgland, has penned a personal tribute that reflects upon David Plumridge’s legacy of protecting your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Guest User
March 21, 2024

Urban Rec: social sport

Guest User
March 21, 2024
Urban Rec: social sport

There’s a new trend for people wanting to play sport in your Park Lands as a social activity, without having to pay club membership fees or commit to organised training.

APA’s Rhia Daniel investigates.

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Guest User
March 18, 2024

E-scooters - pain for some

Guest User
March 18, 2024
E-scooters - pain for some

You would’ve seen them parked alongside your Park Lands or riders zipping down footpaths on them.

E-scooters — some love the convenient mode of transport (and the ease of hiring them), others hate them.

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Shane Sody
March 15, 2024

Vote for your favourite tree

Shane Sody
March 15, 2024
Vote for your favourite tree

Voting is underway in the South Australian Tree of the Year competition. If you appreciate any of your local large trees, you have until the end of March to lodge a vote at 20metretrees.org

Our suggestion: a 150-year-old river red gum in Park 15.

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Shane Sody
March 15, 2024

Fence gone! Opening up!

Shane Sody
March 15, 2024
Fence gone!  Opening up!

Twelve months of advocacy has produced a great result to improve access to your Helen Mayo Park.

A useless, 300-metre fence that has been blocking access to part of your Park Lands for decades has finally been removed.

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Shane Sody
March 14, 2024

Labor snubs Park Lands questions

Shane Sody
March 14, 2024
Labor snubs Park Lands questions

SA Labor has snubbed a series of Park Lands questions posed to the major candidates for a by-election next week in the inner suburban seat of Dunstan.

If you are in the Dunstan electorate, you might like to check (before polling day) on how each of the three main candidates responded to six simple questions about your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
March 13, 2024

Celebrate your urban forests

Shane Sody
March 13, 2024
Celebrate your urban forests

Next week is a time to reflect and give thanks for the few urban forests that remain in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands.

On the International Day of Forests, will the State Government re-think its plans to destroy one of Adelaide’s few urban mini-forests?

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Shane Sody
March 9, 2024

City Dirt Upgrade coming

Shane Sody
March 9, 2024
City Dirt Upgrade coming

A major upgrade is on the way for the popular “City Dirt” bike tracks in Park 20 of your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Guest User
March 8, 2024

Heatwave worry for bats at WOMAD

Guest User
March 8, 2024
Heatwave worry for bats at WOMAD

The chair of a bat rescue organisation is alarmed that this weekend’s WOMAdelaide Festival in Botanic Park (Park 11) will add to the animals’ stress from the heatwave and increase the number of deaths.

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Shane Sody
March 7, 2024

Conservatory's future questioned

Shane Sody
March 7, 2024
Conservatory's future questioned

Questions have been raised about the future of the Bicentennial Conservatory in the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

Despite a Strategic Plan calling for a “re-imagining” of the Conservatory as a “Martian biodome” the Garden’s Director says “there are no concrete plans at the moment” to replace the building’s tropical plants.

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Guest User
March 6, 2024

Hot and dusty Fringe

Guest User
March 6, 2024
Hot and dusty Fringe

Your Adelaide Park Lands have been buzzing with life during the Fringe festival, but it’s not the occasion to wear your best shoes.

Foot traffic and extreme heat have turned some Park Lands Fringe sites dusty and brown, rather than green.

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Guest User
March 4, 2024

Duck crossing tragedy

Guest User
March 4, 2024
Duck crossing tragedy

A young male driver is reported to have deliberately mowed down ducks crossing Frome Road.

Deputy Lord Mayor Keiran Snape is among those “horrified” by the alleged incident.

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Shane Sody
February 28, 2024

How to take over a Park

Shane Sody
February 28, 2024
How to take over a Park

A new chapter has been written in the playbook for how professional lobbyists can take over and commercialise your Park Lands.

To turn an Open, Green, Public space into an area subservient to professional sport, all you need is two State Government heavyweights on your side.

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Shane Sody
February 27, 2024

21-Year lease for rebuilt kiosk

Shane Sody
February 27, 2024
21-Year lease for rebuilt kiosk

Work is expected to begin later this year on renovating and partially re-building the kiosk in Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14) at the start of what would be a 21-year lease.

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