No. 99 - 16 May 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. 99 - 16 May 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 ART PRIZE |
ADELAIDE PARK LANDS ASSOCIATION : ADELAIDE PARK LANDS ART PRIZE |
by Shane Sody APA has queried what appears to be a proposed two-thirds cut in funding for maintenance of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Please, before Tuesday 27 May, send a short email to the City Council, to support your Park Lands with feedback on the Council’s Draft 2025-26 Budget and Annual Business Plan.
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by Shane Sody APA has queried what appears to be a proposed two-thirds cut in funding for maintenance of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Please, before Tuesday 27 May, send a short email to the City Council, to support your Park Lands with feedback on the Council’s Draft 2025-26 Budget and Annual Business Plan.
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2. Pleased to meet you Sarah Russo |
2. Pleased to meet you Sarah Russo |
by Loine Sweeney APA’s new President, Sarah Russo, brings a deep love of land, nature and public place to her leadership. Find out what led her to this role, and her ambition to achieve positive outcomes — for people, for biodiversity, and for your Park Lands. |
by Loine Sweeney APA’s new President, Sarah Russo, brings a deep love of land, nature and public place to her leadership. Find out what led her to this role, and her ambition to achieve positive outcomes — for people, for biodiversity, and for your Park Lands. |
3. Art Prize - VR Exhibition still open |
3. Art Prize - VR Exhibition still open |
Image: "Walking hours" by Talia Wignall The 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is over. Or is it?
The virtual reality exhibition continues, with four prize-winning artworks among dozens of stunning artworks still available to view or buy.
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Image: "Walking hours" by Talia Wignall The 2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is over. Or is it?
The virtual reality exhibition continues, with four prize-winning artworks among dozens of stunning artworks still available to view or buy.
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4. LIV Better elsewhere - Option 2 |
4. LIV Better elsewhere - Option 2 |
by Shane Sody Premier Peter Malinauskas can capture the economic benefits of the LIV Golf tourism drawcard, while also protecting trees and public access to your Adelaide Park Lands.
How? By choosing an alternative site to build a new championship golf course. Here’s our second suggested alternative option, for the Premier to consider.
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by Shane Sody Premier Peter Malinauskas can capture the economic benefits of the LIV Golf tourism drawcard, while also protecting trees and public access to your Adelaide Park Lands.
How? By choosing an alternative site to build a new championship golf course. Here’s our second suggested alternative option, for the Premier to consider.
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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. |
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 $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. Another simple option is to donate. Even better, join our volunteer team. Choose from the various potential roles we've described on our volunteer page, here. |
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 $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. Another simple option is to donate. Even better, join our volunteer team. Choose from the various potential roles we've described on our volunteer page, here. |
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6. Council urges pause on Plaza monster |
6. Council urges pause on Plaza monster |
by Stewart Sweeney The Adelaide City Council has belatedly joined the battle to save your Festival Plaza from being dominated by a 38-storey private office building.
However your intervention is also needed to save your Festival Plaza, and Adelaide’s National Heritage sites.
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by Stewart Sweeney The Adelaide City Council has belatedly joined the battle to save your Festival Plaza from being dominated by a 38-storey private office building.
However your intervention is also needed to save your Festival Plaza, and Adelaide’s National Heritage sites.
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7. What's On in your Park Lands |
7. What's On in your Park Lands |
The RSCPA's "Million Paws Walk" and a crazy ultra-marathon running event are among two of the highlights of 'What's On' in your Park Lands.
Check out these, along with re-greening activities, guided walks and more, over the May-June period in your Park Lands.
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The RSCPA's "Million Paws Walk" and a crazy ultra-marathon running event are among two of the highlights of 'What's On' in your Park Lands.
Check out these, along with re-greening activities, guided walks and more, over the May-June period in your Park Lands.
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Adelaide University researcher Tara McKenzie is part of a team investigating a disease that’s disfiguring and killing possums in Whitmore Square / Iparrityi in your Adelaide Park Lands. |
Adelaide University researcher Tara McKenzie is part of a team investigating a disease that’s disfiguring and killing possums in Whitmore Square / Iparrityi in your Adelaide Park Lands. |
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9. Down by the river (and creek) |
9. Down by the river (and creek) |
City Council contractors are building two new boat ramps on the edge of the Torrens Lake, and also upgrading a short section on Botanic Creek in your eastern Park Lands. |
City Council contractors are building two new boat ramps on the edge of the Torrens Lake, and also upgrading a short section on Botanic Creek in your eastern Park Lands. |
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10. Finding peace in green spaces |
10. Finding peace in green spaces |
by SA Life's Kim Syrus In an increasingly fast-paced world filled with deadlines, hungry social media, and life’s chores, we are constantly searching for places that can help dial down our peaking stress levels.
SA Life's Kim Syrus rates two gardens within your Adelaide Park Lands as among the top local places to find peace.
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by SA Life's Kim Syrus In an increasingly fast-paced world filled with deadlines, hungry social media, and life’s chores, we are constantly searching for places that can help dial down our peaking stress levels.
SA Life's Kim Syrus rates two gardens within your Adelaide Park Lands as among the top local places to find peace.
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by Shane Sody How would New Yorkers feel if areas of their Central Park were devoted to acres of car parking?
In Adelaide, the City Council has been formally advised to continue allowing thousands of cars to park on your Park Lands during the annual Royal Show.
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by Shane Sody How would New Yorkers feel if areas of their Central Park were devoted to acres of car parking?
In Adelaide, the City Council has been formally advised to continue allowing thousands of cars to park on your Park Lands during the annual Royal Show.
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