No. 37 - 1 November 2022

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IN THIS NEWSLETTER:

1. DEMAND BROWNFIELD BUILDING SITES

2. LAND GRAB NEEDS SCRUTINY - OPPOSITION

3. LABOR U-TURNS ON HERITAGE: LAUNCHES FOURTH ATTACK

4. RESTORATION CHALLENGE ISSUED

5. KURANGGA WETLANDS NEW BEGINNINGS

6. PLEASE JOIN US

7. GOOD NEIGHBOURS TO HAVE

8. SAFETY FIRST FOR DISC GOLF

9. MEET OUR ART PRIZE WEBMASTER

10. NOTES ON ADELAIDE - PARK LANDS PROTECTORS

11. HERITAGE IS ABOUT OUR FUTURE AS MUCH AS OUR PAST

12. WHAT'S ON IN YOUR PARK LANDS - NOVEMBER 2022

13. HOW MUCH BITUMEN DOES A PARK NEED?

1. DEMAND BROWNFIELD BUILDING SITES

by Shane Sody

If you love your Adelaide Park Lands then please take a moment to protect them from the State Labor Government’s unprecedented series of attacks.

Threats to put a series of massive new buildings onto your Open Green Public Park Lands must be the subject of a full inquiry.

Your email to MPs can make a difference, but the threat is imminent. Please act THIS WEEK.

Read more >>>

2. LAND GRAB NEEDS SCRUTINY - OPPOSITION

by Shane Sody

The State Opposition and the Greens are preparing to jointly demand a Select Committee of State Parliament to investigate the Government's "unprecedented" grab for your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.

The State Government has U-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Park Lands, and has launched attacks on Park Lands for four separate projects each of which could be built on vacant brownfield sites.

Read more >>>

3. LABOR U-TURNS ON HERITAGE: LAUNCHES FOURTH ATTACK

by Shane Sody

The Labor Party has u-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Adelaide Park Lands, while flagging yet another Park Lands attack, the fourth in just seven months.

The latest proposed attack: new Police buildings; provides further evidence that there is very little Park Lands Love within State Government ranks.

Read more >>>>

4. RESTORATION CHALLENGE ISSUED

by Shane Sody

The State Government has been challenged to bring forward its proposed restoration of your Park Lands near the old Adelaide Gaol.

The Adelaide Park Lands Association has welcomed an announcement by Health Minister Chris Picton that fences around parts of the old Gaol and Kate Cocks Park should be removed, and the Park landscaped.

However Mr Picton should be acting promptly to remove these fences and restore public access to these areas of your Park Lands.

Read more >>>>

5. KURANGGA WETLANDS NEW BEGINNINGS

Words: Peter Lumb

Photos: Lyndon Stacy

After more than a year’s gestation, the little sister to the Victoria Park wetlands has now been born, complete with newly-established reed beds, widened creek line, and trails.

Park Ambassador Peter Lumb and photographer Lyndon Stacy have inspected the finished waterway and mini-wetlands in Blue Gum Park / Kurangga (Park 20).

Read more >>>>

6. WE NEED YOU - PLEASE JOIN US

The Adelaide Park Lands Association has four Park Lands strategies:

Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore.

But we are only as strong as our members. To be effective at these strategies, we need YOUR support.

You are reading the non-members version of this newsletter - which means you are not (yet) a member.

If you were to become an APA member, you would then be able to book for any of our Guided Walks for free, and you would also unlock 15% discounts to all the merch in the APA Shop.

More importantly, your membership fee (as low as $15 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?

Women's fitted T-shirts - among the items in the APA Shop.

7. GOOD NEIGHBOURS TO HAVE

by Carla Caruso

When stunning, filmic images of horses kept popping up on our social media feed, we imagined that they'd been taken someplace afar.

It was only on closer inspection that we discovered that the beautiful pictures were actually taken in your Lefevre Park / Nantu Wama (Park 6).

We had to find out more about the photographer behind the awe-inspiring ‘Horses of North Adelaide’ account. Here’s what we uncovered…

Read more >>>>

8. SAFETY FIRST FOR DISC GOLF

by Carla Caruso

Disc golf continues to grow in popularity in King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15) since a public course was installed a few years ago.

With the rise in activity, however, there has been a need to remind people of the guidelines for playing safely in the shared space.

Read more >>>>

9. MEET OUR ART PRIZE WEBMASTER

by Carla Caruso

With entries open for our biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, we wanted to put the spotlight on those making things happen behind the scenes.

Among the unsung heroes is webmaster Brook Gerard.

Although he's based in the historic mining town of Burra – a two-hour drive from the CBD – this hasn’t stopped him from being involved in the competition since its inception in 2014.

Read more >>>

10. NOTES ON ADELAIDE - PARK LANDS PROTECTORS

We’ve been called NIMBYs and "Park Narcs", but being devoted to protecting and celebrating Adelaide’s Park Lands, we define ourselves as being involved in an essentially democratic project – to keep the city’s unique green belt open to everyone in the community.

On Tuesday, 18 October, InDaily's weekly podcast host, David Washington spoke to Shane Sody, a former radio journalist, sometime audiobook narrator, and president of the Adelaide Park Lands Association:

He uncovered a profound disagreement about the piece of urban design that defines how our capital city looks, feels and operates.

Listen to the podcast here >>>

11. HERITAGE IS ABOUT OUR FUTURE AS MUCH AS OUR PAST

As debate continues over the proposed demolition of an historic precinct to make way for a new hospital in Adelaide, it’s timely to re-examine our state’s heritage and its capacity to create value, opportunity and a lucrative future for South Australia.

The author of this article, Stephanie Johnston wears many hats: Urban planner, Member of the State Planning Commission, and a Member of Kadaltilla / Park Lands Authority. Stephanie also has been, in the past, a Deputy President of the Adelaide Park Lands Association.

Read more at InDaily >>>

12. WHAT'S ON IN YOUR PARK LANDS - NOVEMBER 2022

by Michael Genrich

Dive into these events we’ve found for you, in your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands during the month of November 2022.

Some of them will require early booking, so don’t wait!

Read more >>>

13. HOW MUCH BITUMEN DOES A PARK NEED?

Visitors to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) have been expressing surprise at the extent of new paved roadways, laid over what were previously dirt tracks.

Although the freshly-laid bitumen will last for decades, it has been laid for a very temporary purpose: to prop up a taxpayer-subsidised carbon emission festival for only four days per year, and only until 2026.

Read more >>>

NEWSLETTER TEAM

Editor: Shane Sody

Contributors: Carla Caruso, Michael Genrich

Layout: Sabrina Iqbal

Proofreader: Trish Russell

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