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July 15, 2025
Shane Sody
What you're telling the Government

It seems that State Government ministers need a fresh reminder about how many people value and love your Park Lands.

The Possum Park Protection Platoon is stepping up advocacy and action to head off the Government’s seizure of your Park Lands for profit.

What you're telling the Government
June 30, 2025
Shane Sody
Hostile takeover

The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands has cleared 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 that an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.

Hostile takeover
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
Shane Sody
September 26, 2024

Areas to protect?

Shane Sody
September 26, 2024
Areas to protect?

The State Planning Commission is seeking your advice, on (among other things) what parts of Greater Adelaide “should be protected from future development.”

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Shane Sody
September 25, 2024

Battle for the big grass mug

Shane Sody
September 25, 2024
Battle for the big grass mug

It’s not brass, it’s grass! Get your tickets for a fun-filled evening at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, on Wednesday 9 October.
This one-time-only Park Quiz will support the coming Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. You don’t need to be an expert, because the experts will be on stage! But there will be an interactive audience challenge.

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September 21, 2024

Chihuly in the Botanic Garden

Guest User
September 21, 2024
Chihuly in the Botanic Garden

The Adelaide Botanic Garden in your Park 11 will be even more popular than usual over the summer months, with a display of vibrant, large-scale glass sculptures complementing the flora.

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Guest User
September 19, 2024

What Bird is That? Australasian Grebe

Guest User
September 19, 2024
What Bird is That? Australasian Grebe

In the latest instalment of our What Bird is That? series, we’re looking at something that looks like a duck, but isn't. It's a bird that dramatically changes its appearance during breeding season.

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Guest User
September 15, 2024

Pleased to meet you, Samantha

Guest User
September 15, 2024
Pleased to meet you, Samantha

Samantha Buttery is passionate about a few things: photography, painting, family, and your Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
September 13, 2024

Sports buildings plan secrecy

Shane Sody
September 13, 2024
Sports buildings plan secrecy

The Adelaide City Council has invoked secrecy provisions in the Local Government Act to prevent you reading a report about proposed ratepayer funding for sports building replacements in your Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
September 13, 2024

Be a citizen scientist - log biodiversity

Shane Sody
September 13, 2024
Be a citizen scientist - log biodiversity

For four days this month, you can play a part in the annual “Great Southern Bioblitz” - recording biodiversity in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands, and elsewhere.

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Shane Sody
September 13, 2024

Tearing up the rule book

Shane Sody
September 13, 2024
Tearing up the rule book

If you wanted to build a new house, a shed or a carport, you would need to comply with planning rules.

However if you are the State Government, and you want to build on the Adelaide Park Lands, you have no such constraints.

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Shane Sody
September 11, 2024

Park Quiz

Shane Sody
September 11, 2024
Park Quiz

Tickets are selling fast for the quirky and curious Park Quiz, on 9 October, in support of the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

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Guest User
September 9, 2024

Know Your Park Lands Plants: Tiny Star

Guest User
September 9, 2024
Know Your Park Lands Plants: Tiny Star

In our series Know Your Park Lands Plants, we're looking this time at a small native flower that has been identified so far, in only one Park within your Adelaide Park Lands. It's a Tiny Star.

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Shane Sody
September 5, 2024

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Shane Sody
September 5, 2024
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

There are several unrelated construction projects either under way, or recently completed in your Park Lands.

Opinions will differ about which ones are good, or bad, or ugly. See the pics to make up your mind.

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Shane Sody
August 31, 2024

Entries Open - Prize pool still growing

Shane Sody
August 31, 2024
Entries Open - Prize pool still growing

Entries have opened for the 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

A prize pool of at least $37,500 is guaranteed, for artists in at least seven categories.

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Shane Sody
August 29, 2024

Peppercorn rent still secret

Shane Sody
August 29, 2024
Peppercorn rent still secret

The Chief Executive of the State Department of Environment and Water has refused to reveal the peppercorn rent paid by an Adelaide charity, for a one-hectare produce garden in your Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
August 29, 2024

They Have Got to be Kidding

Shane Sody
August 29, 2024
They Have Got to be Kidding

Only a few weeks after the biggest campaign of tree destruction ever seen in your Park Lands, the State Government now boasts that it is protecting urban trees!

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Shane Sody
August 28, 2024

End the Whack-a-Mole Game

Shane Sody
August 28, 2024
End the Whack-a-Mole Game

Trying to defend your Adelaide Park Lands is like playing the arcade game “Whack-a-mole”.

We've contacted State MPs, to try to stop Park Lands attacks from popping up.

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Shane Sody
August 25, 2024

How Much Has Been Lost?

Shane Sody
August 25, 2024
How Much Has Been Lost?

City Council administrative staff have been researching the answer to a simple question: How much of your Park Lands has been lost, since the election of the Malinauskas Labor Government in March 2022?

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August 23, 2024

Frog spotting

Guest User
August 23, 2024
Frog spotting

As Kermit the Frog once said "it’s not easy being green”.

It’s also not easy for frogs to be seen. But they are here, in your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Shane Sody
August 17, 2024

Rare imagery of former "Koala Farm"

Shane Sody
August 17, 2024
Rare imagery of former "Koala Farm"

ABC-TV archivists have unearthed a rare 1956 home video of a long-forgotten former tourist attraction in your Adelaide Park Lands.

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Guest User
August 15, 2024

Through Kevin’s lens

Guest User
August 15, 2024
Through Kevin’s lens

The Adelaide Zoo in Park 11 is a magnet for aspiring nature and wildlife photographers.

Among such shutterbugs is Woodville’s Kevin Roberts. If you’ve stumbled across a stunning zoo image on Instagram recently, chances are it’s one of his.

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Shane Sody
August 15, 2024

Hopes high for regreening with netball partners

Shane Sody
August 15, 2024
Hopes high for regreening with netball partners

Discussions over the past few days have raised hopes that a disused patch of bitumen in your Park Lands can be re-greened, in what looks like being a joint venture between the CIty Council, the Adelaide Park Lands Association, and the SA United Church Netball Association.

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