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 …
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.
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.
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