No. 112 - 1 December 2025 If this email is not displaying properly (e.g. if it's truncated or there are no pictures) then click here to view this email in your web browser |
No. 112 - 1 December 2025 If this email is not displaying properly (e.g. if it's truncated or there are no pictures) then click here to view this email in your web browser |
ADELAIDE PARK LANDS ASSOCIATION |
ADELAIDE PARK LANDS ASSOCIATION |
1. See it before it disappears |
1. See it before it disappears |
by Shane Sody You’re invited! Please come to inspect, first-hand, the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of 15 dates over the next few weeks. |
by Shane Sody You’re invited! Please come to inspect, first-hand, the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of 15 dates over the next few weeks. |
2. Closed, blackened, private |
2. Closed, blackened, private |
by Liz Tidemann What’s the opposite of “Open, Green, Public”? Last week, it was Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16 of your Adelaide Park Lands). |
by Liz Tidemann What’s the opposite of “Open, Green, Public”? Last week, it was Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16 of your Adelaide Park Lands). |
3. Candidate's "shift the car race" policy |
3. Candidate's "shift the car race" policy |
by InDaily's David Simmons A State election candidate is campaigning to get the Adelaide 500 motor sport festival out of your Park Lands.
Some CBD residents packed up last week and left Adelaide to escape what they describe as the “horrendous” noise.
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by InDaily's David Simmons A State election candidate is campaigning to get the Adelaide 500 motor sport festival out of your Park Lands.
Some CBD residents packed up last week and left Adelaide to escape what they describe as the “horrendous” noise.
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4. Know Your Park Lands Plants: Silky Oak |
4. Know Your Park Lands Plants: Silky Oak |
by Shane Sody In recent weeks, your eyes might have been drawn to these distinctive yellow blossoms high in the canopy in one or more parts of your Adelaide Park Lands.
If so, you’ve noticed the largest tree in the Grevillea family: the Silky Oak.
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by Shane Sody In recent weeks, your eyes might have been drawn to these distinctive yellow blossoms high in the canopy in one or more parts of your Adelaide Park Lands.
If so, you’ve noticed the largest tree in the Grevillea family: the Silky Oak.
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5. Find peace of mind - become a member |
5. Find peace of mind - become a member |
There are two versions of this newsletter - one for members, and one for non-members. You are reading the non-members version. Are you "worrying on the sidelines" in the contest of ideas over the future of your Adelaide Park Lands? Find "peace of mind and a heart full of love" by joining the APA membership team. Your membership fees will help with our four Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. |
There are two versions of this newsletter - one for members, and one for non-members. You are reading the non-members version. Are you "worrying on the sidelines" in the contest of ideas over the future of your Adelaide Park Lands? Find "peace of mind and a heart full of love" by joining the APA membership team. Your membership fees will help with our four Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. |
If you were to become an APA member, you would then be able to: More importantly, your membership fee (as low as $20 per year for a single concession) would be tangible support for our Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. What are you waiting for? But membership is not the only way you can help. Other simple options are: Volunteer and/or Donate. Choose from the various potential roles we've described on our volunteer page, here. We urgently need more Park Lands journalists/reporters/story tellers! |
If you were to become an APA member, you would then be able to: More importantly, your membership fee (as low as $20 per year for a single concession) would be tangible support for our Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. What are you waiting for? But membership is not the only way you can help. Other simple options are: Volunteer and/or Donate. Choose from the various potential roles we've described on our volunteer page, here. We urgently need more Park Lands journalists/reporters/story tellers! |
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6. Park Poetry: "Glover Playgrounds" |
6. Park Poetry: "Glover Playgrounds" |
by Alex Robertson There are ten children’s playgrounds within your Adelaide Park Lands.
Three of them, each named after the early 20th century Lord Mayor, Charles Glover, have inspired this contribution from poet, Alex Robertson. It’s an ode to the playgrounds of your Adelaide Park Lands.
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by Alex Robertson There are ten children’s playgrounds within your Adelaide Park Lands.
Three of them, each named after the early 20th century Lord Mayor, Charles Glover, have inspired this contribution from poet, Alex Robertson. It’s an ode to the playgrounds of your Adelaide Park Lands.
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7. Transform two city precincts |
7. Transform two city precincts |
by Robert Farnan The “Save Festival Plaza Alliance” is urging Premier Malinauskas “to transform two city precincts in one inspired move that could truly invigorate Adelaide.” |
by Robert Farnan The “Save Festival Plaza Alliance” is urging Premier Malinauskas “to transform two city precincts in one inspired move that could truly invigorate Adelaide.” |
8. Questions without answers |
8. Questions without answers |
by Shane Sody with Tim Jackson Over the past 15, months, a determined community activist has delivered a stream of questions to Premier, Peter Malinauskas, and the Member for Adelaide, Lucy Hood, in an effort to understand why their Government is targeting your Park Lands for commercial developments. |
by Shane Sody with Tim Jackson Over the past 15, months, a determined community activist has delivered a stream of questions to Premier, Peter Malinauskas, and the Member for Adelaide, Lucy Hood, in an effort to understand why their Government is targeting your Park Lands for commercial developments. |
9. Do not come to this workshop |
9. Do not come to this workshop |
Please do NOT come to our planned volunteer action workshop on 9 December, unless you are ready and willing to work for your Park Lands! |
Please do NOT come to our planned volunteer action workshop on 9 December, unless you are ready and willing to work for your Park Lands! |
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