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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
Guest User
October 8, 2024

Throw pink

Guest User
October 8, 2024
Throw pink

Your Adelaide Park Lands are about to host South Australia’s first female-only disc golf tournament.

The action will take place in King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15), where a disc golf course has been the subject of recent controversy.

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October 7, 2024

Know Your Park Lands Art: Forgotten Australians Memorial

Guest User
October 7, 2024
Know Your Park Lands Art: Forgotten Australians Memorial

Our series of stories, Know Your Park Lands Art, guides you through various creative displays within your Adelaide Park Lands.

This time, we put the spotlight on a memorial featuring four huge, stainless steel daisies.

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Shane Sody
October 4, 2024

Trees "stressed, vulnerable" from disc golf hits

Shane Sody
October 4, 2024
Trees "stressed, vulnerable" from disc golf hits

The City of Adelaide is considering major changes to a popular sporting venue in your eastern Park Lands.

Hundreds of stray flying discs have damaged several of the significant trees in King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15).

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Shane Sody
September 30, 2024

Banking for the climate

Shane Sody
September 30, 2024
Banking for the climate

The Adelaide Park Lands Association is switching its banking business to ensure no funds are invested in the fossil fuel industry.

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Guest User
September 29, 2024

Artists with a disability

Guest User
September 29, 2024
Artists with a disability

A new category in the biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is "artist living with a disability".

The prize is being sponsored by Minda, the state's largest non-government disability support organisation.

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Shane Sody
September 29, 2024

Your Car Parking Lands

Shane Sody
September 29, 2024
Your Car Parking Lands

It seems that the City of Adelaide puts a low priority on enforcing restrictions on car parking in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Week after week, hundreds of drivers are flouting restrictions and covering your Open, Green Public spaces with their vehicles.

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Guest User
September 28, 2024

Volunteering with Christina

Guest User
September 28, 2024
Volunteering with Christina

Former Sydneysider Christina Tilston recently began as one of our volunteers, helping with admin and taking beautiful pics on our Guided Walks.

We've put Christina in the hot-seat for a volunteer profile.

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Shane Sody
September 27, 2024

Sport buildings consultation (again!)

Shane Sody
September 27, 2024
Sport buildings consultation (again!)

The City Council is consulting for a second time, about how it manages sports buildings on your Park Lands.

How does the new policy deal with the tension between the demands of community sport, and the public interest in "Open, Green, Public" Park Lands?

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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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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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