No. 30 - 16th July 2022

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IN THIS NEWSLETTER:

COUNCIL CAVES IN - SELLS YOUR PARK
SOPHIE'S CHOICE OF TREES
PULLED IN TWO DIRECTIONS
NATURE AS ART
HISTORIC PICS IN COLOUR
JOIN US
GIVE A GIFT OF PARK LANDS LOVE
KAURNA HERITAGE WALK
BIRDS EYE VIEW
THREE COVID SITES
ANNUAL COMMUNITY FORUM
WHAT'S ON IN YOUR PARK LANDS

1. COUNCIL CAVES IN - SELLS YOUR PARK

by Shane Sody

The Adelaide City Council has caved in to hostage threats from the State Government and has voted to sell part of your Open Green Public Park Lands to the State Government, for a new high school building.

The decision, at Council’s meeting on Tuesday 12 July, makes the City of Adelaide complicit in one of the many current Park Lands attacks by the State Government.

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2. SOPHIE'S CHOICE OF TREES

by Shane Sody

Sophie's Choice is a story (and movie) about a refugee who was forced to choose which one of her two children would be killed, in order to save the other.

Now, the State Government is asking for your “Sophie's Choice”: picking trees to be killed for an Aquatic Centre.

Please ACT NOW, and take our 1-minute survey to reject the idea that dozens of trees must be killed to save the rest of this Park.

Urge the Government to go for a win-win instead, with a new Aquatic Centre on an alternative brownfield site.

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3. PULLED IN TWO DIRECTIONS

by Shane Sody

V‏ictoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) is a park divided. Two rival forces are pulling the largest area of your Adelaide Park Lands in opposite directions.

One of those forces already has the money to achieve its purposes. This year, so far, $18 million has been confirmed to increase carbon emissions and concrete in Victoria Park.

On the other hand, a grant application for $47,180 to subsidise community tree planting is hanging in the balance.

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4. NATURE AS ART

by Carla Caruso

Have you ever stumbled across words or artworks, created from bark, leaves and the like, in your Adelaide Park Lands? Chances are you’ve happened upon the designs of Adelaide sculptor and installation artist Jane Skeer.

The 57-year-old recently scooped a prestigious Samstag scholarship, so will leave for Glasgow for two years in September. However, she’s hoping others will continue making art from nature in her wake, putting smiles on the faces of passers-by.

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5. HISTORIC PICS IN COLOUR

by Carla Caruso

Your Adelaide Park Lands have a rich history, but it can be hard to imagine how they really looked years ago.

Fortunately, one Adelaide woman is doing her best to let you see the colourful heritage of the Park Lands you love.

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6. 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. See the examples below.

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?

7. GIVE A GIFT OF PARK LANDS LOVE

by Shane Sody

Are you thinking of a gift for a loved one?

For any birthday, you can share your Park Lands love with one of these items (or others) from the APA shop. Proceeds support our work to Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore.

Browse the store >>>

8. KAURNA HERITAGE WALK

by Shane Sody

If you Love your Park Lands you can't help but acknowledge and respect this land's traditional custodians; the Kaurna people who cared for the land for many thousands of years before European settlers arrived here in the 1830s.

APA joined with the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation on Sunday 3 July to get a Kaurna perspective on your Park Lands, from elder Rod O'Brien.

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9. BIRD'S EYE VIEW

by Carla Caruso

A local commercial drone videographer has a new appreciation for the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari after shooting aerial footage along the river, including here in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Harry runs Adelaide Aerial with wife Ann-Marie. They’ve just spent six weeks capturing rejuvenated parts of the river from up above – from the Hills to West Beach – for Green Adelaide.

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10. THREE COVID SITES

by Shane Sody

Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, your Adelaide Park Lands are still providing multiple public health benefits.

The value of Open Green Public space for maintaining and improving public health has never been greater. In addition, three sites within the western Park Lands are filling vital roles in detecting and combating the spread of the virus.

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11. ANNUAL COMMUNITY FORUM

Kadaltilla/Park Lands Authority is obliged to hold an "annual community forum" .

The purpose is "to discuss business of a general nature aimed at reviewing the progress and direction of the Authority."

This year the forum will be held on Saturday 20 August 2022, from 10:00am and 3:00pm, at the Adelaide Pavilion in Veale Park / Walyu Yarta (Park 21), corner of South Terrace and Peacock Road.

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12. WHAT'S ON IN YOUR PARK LANDS, JULY 2022

Just in case you missed it, here's the list of What's On that we published in our last newsletter on 1 July

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NEWSLETTER TEAM

Editor: Shane Sody

Contributor: Carla Caruso

Proofreader: Trish Russell

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