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Category Archives: Environment

Painting the city green …

The threats to the Adelaide Park Lands continue, despite LIV Golf collapsing ( LIV Golf was the prime reason for the massive and destructive North Adelaide Golf Course redevelopment) and many Moto GP enthusiasts thinking the original Phillip Island circuit would still be better than the proposed Adelaide city/Park Lands circuit. As well, the Malinauskas Government is demanding contractors on these projects highlight their green-washing credentials. The government’s Adelaide Park Lands Nature Positive Package has been heavily criticized.

Greenfielding …

The erosion and appropriation of Adelaide’s park lands continues…

If not consensus …

Some of the cartoons drawn during the Local Government Association (LGA) 2026 Climate Practitioners Network Forum – Building Consensus, in the Sanctuary, Adelaide Zoo, 30th September.

And more …

We’re cooking …

Three degrees of global warming? No time to waste…

Meanwhile …

Papered over …

Cartoon ideas from an opinion piece by John Bridgland continuing his exploration of the South Australian government exploitation of Adelaide’s 189-year-old park lands estate. Transparency campaigner and former SA senator Rex Patrick exposes the cozy relationship between Premier Malinauskas and the daily News Corp (Murdoch) newspaper The Advertiser …

Making way …

More trees to go in the Adelaide Parklands … for the MotoGP …

Slurp ….

Mining giant BHP will continue to extract water from the Great Artesian Basin until at least 2036. Environmentalists and First Nations groups say a new agreement between the South Australian government and BHP…. does not do enough to end water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin.

BHP does not have a good environmental track record… here’s an example.

Tree telling …

The city of Adelaide is ringed by parklands. Laid out in its original design they were to be ‘a place for everyone’. However, particularly in recent years, they are being whittled away by encroaching developments. One indicator is the destruction of trees and habitat: 585 trees have just been felled for the redevelopment of the North Adelaide golf course, 400 trees will have gone for the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital (built on the parklands!) and about 45 trees will be removed for the MotoGP circuit ….

For much more on this, see the Adelaide Parklands Association website.

If you go down in the parks today …

The ‘Swiss Cheese’ safety model. One of the cartoon illustrations developed with Dr David Low for the Australian Pollution Research Network report Improving Child Safety in Public Parks and Playgrounds: a case study on hazardous chemical use in the City of Clarence, along with other cartoons used in their anti-pesticides campaigns.

… you could be in for a big surprise …

Park Lands chipped away …

As designed by William Light Adelaide was a city surrounded by wide parklands – parklands for all. Over many years they have been encroached upon by various developments, and this has ramped up under the Malinauskas government, encouraged by various influential groups, developers, lobbyists and more – as detailed by the Adelaide Parklands Association.