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Speaker 1: Now there's going to be a rally on the steps

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Speaker 1: of Parliament tomorrow Budget Day. Tomorrow budgets out at three

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Speaker 1: pm is when we'll know what is in it, and

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Speaker 1: a bit earlier in the day at eleven the Adelaide

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Speaker 1: Parklands Association will be there concerned about the fate of

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Speaker 1: potentially six hundred trees in the North Adelaide Golf Course.

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Speaker 1: At the moment this is the area that will make

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Speaker 1: way or be adjusted for the live golf tournament. Shane

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Speaker 1: Sody from the Adelaide Parklands Association on the line. Shane,

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Speaker 1: good evening, Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Matthie, thanks for having us on what is

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Speaker 2: likely to happen.

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Speaker 1: So you've got some evidence that up to six hundred

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Speaker 1: trees may be under threat, may be gone.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about an area. The North Adelaide Golf

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Speaker 2: Course is three of them, North Course, South Course and

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Speaker 2: the Part three course. They're on seventy hectares more or

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Speaker 2: less of what is known as Possum Park perlth Wardley

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Speaker 2: Park one of the Adelaide Parklands, and not a lot

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Speaker 2: of people realize it's actually one of the most heavily

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Speaker 2: forested parts of the outlot Park plants, probably the most

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Speaker 2: heavily forested park. There are about nine thousand trees in

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Speaker 2: this park and they're home to more than one hundred species.

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Speaker 2: And we've had a UNI researcher who's been doing some

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Speaker 2: work there trying to work out what would happen if

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Speaker 2: the fairways were widened and lengthened, as the Premier says

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Speaker 2: they need to be to accommodate lift golf, and researchers

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Speaker 2: come up with the calculation and it is only a

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Speaker 2: rough approximation. Six hundred trees would have to go, So

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Speaker 2: out of nine thousand, maybe that's not many. The Premier

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Speaker 2: says the vast majority will be staying, and we're prepared

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Speaker 2: to take him in his word on that, but six

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Speaker 2: hundred is a heck of a lot, and most a

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Speaker 2: lot of these trees are one hundred years old or

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Speaker 2: thereabouts and habitat for a lot of species. The question is,

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Speaker 2: I guess, if you're wanting to stage an event that

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Speaker 2: only lasts for three days, how many trees should have

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Speaker 2: to die to accommodate that event?

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Speaker 1: All right, So based on the estimation that you've done

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Speaker 1: six hundred trees, what if that's way above what the

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Speaker 1: government's planning.

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Speaker 2: Well, it could be a lot. That could be an

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Speaker 2: underestimate because we're talking about areas. I just got to

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Speaker 2: get rid of that sound. We're talking about an event

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Speaker 2: where the elite golfers hit the ball a lot further

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Speaker 2: and behind every green there is a whole or always

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Speaker 2: trees behind every green that helps the golfers work out

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Speaker 2: where the where the hole is. So the trees behind

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Speaker 2: every green would have to be chopped down. So six

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Speaker 2: hundred out of nine thousand is probably well. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm not the guy that did the research. The research

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Speaker 2: was done by a final year UNI student who is

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Speaker 2: doing environmental protection and environmental management.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if saying final year UNI student gives

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Speaker 1: it any more cred though.

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Speaker 2: No, well no, And you know he's basing this on

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Speaker 2: and a plan that the city council had six years

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Speaker 2: ago to do pretty much the same thing, and he's

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Speaker 2: overlaid that over the city council's tree map, where all

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Speaker 2: the trees on most of the parks are identified. So

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Speaker 2: it's quite easy to see if you're going to biden

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Speaker 2: or lengthen tairways, which trees are going to have to

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Speaker 2: go so he's going to be pretty well on the mark.

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Speaker 2: And he's talking about seventy seven river red gums, sixty

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Speaker 2: eight blue gums, more than one hundred sugar gums, and

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Speaker 2: more than three hundred trees of other species. So there's that.

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Speaker 2: And then of course he hasn't taken into accounts the

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Speaker 2: likelihood or the more than likely or the almost certainty

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Speaker 2: that a whole lot of new buildings will be required

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Speaker 2: to turn this into a play thing for multi millionaire

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Speaker 2: fly in flyer golfers, and the need to put in

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Speaker 2: new car parks and genually roads to the new car

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Speaker 2: parks a lot of an.

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Speaker 1: Area you'd be aware, Shane. Though, when a government makes

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Speaker 1: up its mind is going to do something, nothing stands

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Speaker 1: in the way. So how do you stop them demolishing

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Speaker 1: these trees? Are you're planning to chain yourselves to them

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Speaker 1: if it comes to that, Well, for a.

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Speaker 2: Start, at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning at Parliament House we'll

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Speaker 2: be inviting people to stand up for this park. The

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Speaker 2: title of the rally is Protect Possum Park. And I

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Speaker 2: think perhaps the premiere might not appreciate the extent to

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Speaker 2: which Adelaide people value the Adelaide Park plant. It is

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Speaker 2: in fact the only city in the world with a

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Speaker 2: built inside of parks. You put that around the other

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Speaker 2: way of Stone Park in the world with the city

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Speaker 2: inside it has got national heritage, this thing. And this

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Speaker 2: is a clash values because it would appear that the

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Speaker 2: premiere and his ministers see the Adelaide Parklans as an

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Speaker 2: area which is ripe for commercialization, for building things, for

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Speaker 2: getting money in, for having short term events, whereas a

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Speaker 2: lot of other people value the Adelaide Park Plans as

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Speaker 2: a haven of biodiversity, a peaceful, calm, world unique park.

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Speaker 1: It would still be that, but just with fewer trees.

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Speaker 2: Well indeed, and that comes back to the question how

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Speaker 2: many trees should have to die in order to create

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Speaker 2: an event for three days to attract multimillionaire five fo golfers.

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Speaker 1: Did we get rid of trees for the Formula one

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Speaker 1: back in the day in Victoria Park?

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't know. It's a long time

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Speaker 2: ago Formula one started, I think not in eighty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder because there's one big gum tree still

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Speaker 1: there in the middle and the grandstand gets built around it,

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Speaker 1: and I wonder if there were many more there at

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Speaker 1: the time, and did we not object to them going.

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Speaker 2: Well, Victoria Park is the largest park within the Adelaide

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Speaker 2: park Lands. But the park we're talking about now, Possum

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Speaker 2: Park fell to Wardley, is the second largest park and

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Speaker 2: it is by far more heavily tread than Victoria Park

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Speaker 2: has been. It's got so many trees of so many

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Speaker 2: different species, habitat for over a hundred different species in

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Speaker 2: that park, and you wouldn't appreciate it, I think unless

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Speaker 2: you went up in a helicopter or a drone or flew.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people fly over it. If you're coming

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Speaker 2: in or out of Adelaide, the trees there, it is

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Speaker 2: a really it's an urban forest.

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Speaker 1: So toy chainsaws tomorrow on the steps of Parliament House

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Speaker 1: to get them. It's almost like a razor gang on

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, there are any toy chain saws. I

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Speaker 2: don't want the security of Parliament House to get worried

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Speaker 2: that we might be marching in with anything lethal. To

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Speaker 2: make a point. It's to symbolize because when the government

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Speaker 2: comes for the trees in Boston Park, they won't be

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Speaker 2: toy ones. They'll be real ones. And trees will be

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Speaker 2: getting chopped down to you know, basically decimate trees that

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Speaker 2: are over one hundred years old with all that habitat,

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Speaker 2: and for what to cater for millionaire five fo superstar golfers.

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Speaker 2: And you've got to ask yourself the question, you know, well,

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Speaker 2: how many trees should have to die in order to

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Speaker 2: create the playground for a three day event?

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Speaker 1: How many people are you expecting tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a good question, Matthew. I really am not sure.

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Speaker 2: It could be five, could be five thous We'll have

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Speaker 2: to wait and see, but I think some of them

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Speaker 2: will be. I know from talking to your quite a

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Speaker 2: few people. They're really upset that the government seems to

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Speaker 2: be treating the Adelaide park Lands as this plaything for

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Speaker 2: multimillionaire Fifoux golfers rather than as the very very valuable,

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Speaker 2: totally unique urban park. It's got National Heritage listing, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Shane. We'll see what happens tomorrow and into the future.

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Speaker 1: Obviously this when when's the government going to make a

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Speaker 1: decision on it. It's got to be imminent, I suppose,

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Speaker 1: because well it's not next year.

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Speaker 2: The year after the premier made the decision back in

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Speaker 2: February and has been planning what exactly is going to happen.

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Speaker 2: And when you ask, you know, what's going to happen,

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Speaker 2: what trees? How many fences you know? And so on,

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Speaker 2: the Premier deflects all those questions and says, wait until

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Speaker 2: the designs are released. Well, we're not waiting for the

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Speaker 2: designs to be released because we're not haggling. We don't

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Speaker 2: need to haggle over you know, should the fairway go

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Speaker 2: here or should the fairway go there? Should the massive

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Speaker 2: new building be here or there? We've got fundamental difference

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Speaker 2: in values. This is a clash of objectives, a clash

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Speaker 2: of values. What are parks for? Are they for short

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Speaker 2: events for multi millionaire fifho golfers or are they valuable

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Speaker 2: as parks?

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Speaker 1: All right, Shane, good luck tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Matthew, thank you for your time.

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Speaker 1: Shane Sodi from the Adelaide Parklands Association a rally on

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Speaker 1: the steps of State Parliament tomorrow at eleven to hopefully

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Speaker 1: save They estimate six hundred trees that will go as

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Speaker 1: part of the Live Golf redevelopment or redesign of the

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Speaker 1: golf courses for live golf through North Adelaide Possum Park.

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Speaker 1: So if you care about the trees, if you've got

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Speaker 1: a point of view on it, well that's the place

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Speaker 1: to be if you think they should stay