Stop the Chop Road Show 1 - 2 PM at Norwood Oval Saturday, September 12, 2026,
Hi all,
1 - Stop the Chop Road Show at Norwood
Saturday, September 12, 2026,
1 - 2 PM at Norwood Oval Memorial Gardens
The Parade, Norwood
2 - The state government's 'consultation': share your feedback online here
or a better option:
Write your own email to: circuitredevelopment@sa.gov.au
Please copy in adelparklands@outlook.com so we can track submissions.
Submissions close at 11:59 pm, Sunday 20 September 2026
And for your interest, Is the MotoGP Pain worth the Gain? is an excellent critique of the economics and traffic implications of the event by retired Transport engineer and Senior Transport Executive Andrew Milazzo.
3 - STANDING OUR GROUND. HOLDING THE LINE with John Schumann & the Vagabond Crew, Loren Kate & Uncle Mickey. A fundraiser to support those arrested and charged for defending our park lands. TICKETS HERE
Discussion:
State government is essentially waging war on our public spaces, including our parks and squares.
When it’s widely understood that cities around the world, even poorer ones, have transformed themselves almost exclusively by a public spaces policy over the last 60 or so years, we have to ask why it’s not good enough for Adelaide; especially when we have a clear lead with our William Light layout which is not a historic sacred cow, but a leading edge design, still, and an inspiration to other cities, even in Australia.
We are losing the free use and benefit of our spaces, whether it is Festival Plaza, Possum and John E Brown Park, or the Eastern Park Lands, with extremely questionable advantage for the average person.
Whether its street pavements, laneways, malls, squares or parks, it’s not rocket science: visitors spend almost all their time in public spaces, not buildings. More of them, and more attractive ones, equals more visitors.
But in Adelaide we are seeing state government effectively gift the best of them away to giant corporations to profit from, with significant costs to the city and to the local economy that can even outweigh any gains at all.
They don’t seem to realise that they are arguably kicking away the economic underpinning of the city, the natural attractiveness that is the gift that keeps on giving, that should be giving us a constant visitor flow against the troughs and peaks of big and costly events.
Thank you again for your support,
Rob,
Robert Farnan
Convenor | Save Festival Plaza Alliance
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Savefestivalplaza@gmail.com
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