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Park Lands News December 2012 Number 49 ParkLANDS news December 2012 Number 49 Contents President’s letter ... 2 10 ... Surveying world heritage Issues on the table ... 2 12 ... Water pilfering: the west Editorial ... 2 14 ... Carbon fraud and tree deceit Boycott of Cirque du Soleil ... 3 15 ... Town Hall honour reality check Park Lands bouquets ... 3 15 ... Did you know? Maroonhood native orchids discovered ... 3 15 ... Rebadging Danthonia Mozzie menace: 5000 victims a year ... 4 16 ... Boiling frog syndrome Branding the (Adelaide) Park Lands ... 4 16 ... Signs of the times ACC Park Lands car park capers ... 5 17 ... What’s in a title? Unsustainable secrets ... 6 17 ... Victoria Park— ‘Minimal disturbance’ a flying success ... 7 don’t miss this race Scraping the surface ... 7 18 ... For the record What’s it for? ... 7 19 ... ‘Who took the people’s Park Lands digs ... 8 Park Lands? It was him.’ Adelaide Park Lands Preservation Association Inc PO Box 7334 Hutt Street SA 5000 Web: www.adelaide-parklands.org President’s letter Ian’s Lament Years ago the ACC rightly insisted that the Netball Association remove We have recognized that we really its administration from the West Park need to excite more people to cherish, Lands. Since then administration offices celebrate and enjoy our Park Lands! have slipped into the Wine Centre, Next To be resigned to a future of being Generation and the North Adelaide Golf categorised as a vociferous carping Club (now housing Golf SA). There has minority—which is always right, mind!— even been a proposal that Victoria Park’s may be an avenue for spleen but will not Heritage Grandstand open its doors to save the Park Lands in the long run. This the Clipsal 500 administration! ‘long run’ has to be at least viewed as Obviously, as well as trespassing extending for the next 200 years. buildings, extensive administration goes This is the rub, because the political with Adelaide High School, the new and popular view rarely stretches past a Hospital, and the SA Health and Medical decade, if we’re lucky. Research Institute building. It is clear that the rate of alienation of There is no widely held sense of the the last decade, if continued, would sacrosanct nature of the Park Lands. Editorial leave little open space amongst all the There are no elected champions of ‘irresistible proposals’ of the next 200 the Park Lands courageous enough to As this 175th anniversary year of William years. oppose the relentless, ignorant assault Light’s 1837 founding of the City of Why do I think that the generations of on the integrity of the Park Lands. Those Adelaide and its Park Lands draws to powers-that-be would not wake up to representing Adelaide should be boasting a close, we thank our members and the situation and reverse the trend before loudly and frequently of the incomparable friends, Park Lands protectors and it is too late? Because for ‘motherhood’ Park Lands. Parliament should expedite contributors for their efforts and goodwill. statements, hollow calls for protection of State Heritage listing and actively push Especial thanks to Gunta Groves the Park Lands, emotional platitudes of for World Heritage. whose term on the Adelaide Park Lands the wonder of the Park Lands, strident Sadly, Labor and Liberal are dubious Authority ends in mid February 2013. claims of how the Park Lands set and nervous of such moves in case Gunta’s advocacy for the Park Lands Adelaide apart as ‘Superb’, and for sheer these give them hurdles to cross before has been exemplary, giving the lead— hypocrisy, the leaders and spokespeople chasing another populist but damaging all too seldom followed—as to what a of South Australia for previous and development on the Park Lands. management body might achieve if it current times fill me with despair! were properly constituted. It is left to us in APPA to enthuse people, We need a majority of people to cherish the media and politicians and get them We are grateful to the Art Gallery of the Park Lands as they would their own on board, so that we will not wear the South Australia for their kind permission garden, to revere the Park Lands as shame of history as the generation and assistance with reproducing, a precious heritage held in trust, with that allowed the Park Lands to slip to on the cover of this issue, William the concept of the Park Lands held extinction. Light’s sublime watercolour, The free of economic exploitation, free of commencement of Colonization in South administration offices. Ian Gilfillan Australia, 1837, and for permission to publish detail from William Light’s self- ISSUES ON THE TABLE portrait which readers can find in colour Adelaide High School expansion on the centre opening. Light’s depiction Adelaide Oval demolition/expansion Season’s of the vista that inspired his selection of Alienated Park Lands the site of Adelaide can be considered Australian Heritage Strategy to be the birth certificate of the City of Biodiversity and dilapidation surveys Adelaide’s Park Lands. Britannia intersection Greetings As a statement of intent by the creative Brownhill/Keswick Creek Stormwater Plan genius, it records the landscape as Light Cirque du Soleil/Park 24 Event Venue The President and Dying elms and other trees; White Cedar saw it, looking eastwards towards the Avenue; War Memorial Oak and Drive APPA Committee hills from Park Lands between North Land grabs at Adelaide Oval, Bonython Terrace and the River Torrens (opposite Park, Park 24, Railway yards, Riverbank thank you for your the Newmarket Hotel). In a short space of Lounder’s boat-building shed time Light was protecting the Park Lands ‘Purple water’ regime and damage he depicted from being misappropriated Riverbank ‘Project’ and $40m footbridge support during 2012 by government, becoming the first Royal Adelaide Show car parking protector of the Park Lands, aided and SACA, SANFL, AFL and Stadium and wish you a abetted by the Resident Commissioner, Management Authority James Hurtle Fisher. World Heritage listing happy and safe Thanks to the assistance of Dr Keryn Cover: Detail of Colonel William Light Christmas season Walshe and volunteers of the South (1786–1839), The Commencement of Australian Museum, in this edition we are Colonization in South Australia, 1837 and a propsperous also able to bring you a special exhibition c.1837, Adelaide, Australia of artefacts salvaged from this area, Gift of Sir E T Smith 1890 New Year unearthed by builders working on the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Park Lands Railyards (New RAH) site. Park LANDS News December 2012—2 Boycott of Cirque du Soleil Maroonhood Western Park Lands performances native orchids APPA thanks all members, Park Lands protectors and supporters discovered who have indicated their intention to boycott Cirque du Soleil, On 13 August 2012, as part of Adelaide as well as urging relatives and friends to join the boycott. City Council’s ongoing commitment to the natural flora of the Adelaide plains, biodiversity staff discovered an orchid Thanks to SNAP Printing, Frome specimen within the Adelaide Park Lands. Road Adelaide STOP PRESS This orchid was identified as Pterostylis A heartfelt thanks to Gareth and A Cirque du Soleil missive delivered to pedunculata (Maroonhood orchid). This Ian Monro and the team for their local letter boxes puffs about ‘plenty plant was discovered in Park 16 and professional, patient and expert of on site parking for our patrons with will be managed and protected as a assistance for the 2012 editions of traffic management in place to ensure part of Adelaide City Council’s ongoing Park Lands News. minimal disruption to the surrounding biodiversity program. area.’ By ‘on site parking’ Cirque du Soleil really means an ACC UPark James Walsh Park Lands carpark. It seems ‘minimal Sustainability Advisor continued from p2 disruption’ and ‘traffic management’ Adelaide City Council Thanks are also due to the National is Cirque’s take on closure of 100% of Archives of the UK for permission family parking on the Park Lands section to publish original works of art by of Sir Donald Bradman Drive. Enquiries William Light and Henry Nixon, from [email protected], Toll free their collection, and to each and every event hotline number: contributor. Many thanks for assisting 0011 800 1 548 0000 with bringing together environmental 12pm–12am 7 days (from Dec 6) material on various aspects of Or contact ACC Customer Centre on sustainable development and Park Lands 8203 7203. environment for this issue, in conjunction with illustration of Light’s genius. With the release of the Mount Lofty Park Lands Ranges agrarian landscape World Heritage feasibility study and its bouquets predictions of economic benefit to the state it seems timely to revisit the The APA Group (APA), described proposal for World Heritage nomination of as Australia’s largest natural gas infrastructure business, deserves thanks Light’s Plan and the Adelaide Park Lands. Above: Adelaide Park Lands for cancelling its mooted 8 month As the government digs SA deeper into Maroonhood orchid (Pterostylis occupation of Park 21 (cnr Sir Lewis pedunculata). Photo courtesy of Adelaide debt with Park Lands, and other, pet Cohen Ave and Greenhill Rd) for a gas City Council, 13 August 2012. projects, its clear Light’s Benthamite main replacement works depot. Plan for Adelaide and its Park Lands Top marks for showing how its done! Editor’s note: is the most cost effective international Native orchids often require native bees SA Parliamentarians (the AYES have it) brand available. Nothing else has the or fungal gnats for pollination. They power to deliver an integrated economic, Rachel Sanderson MP, State Member for Adelaide, for tabling in the House can be destroyed or damaged by larger environmental and social strategy for European bees attempting pollination.
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