00:02Taking to the streets to fight for the parklands.
00:08Protesters flocking to Victoria Square, then marching to Victoria Park,
00:12opposing the removal of trees for the North Adelaide Golf Course redevelopment and City MotoGP track.
00:18They belong to the people, not the government.
00:21While the government called the media 40km north of the CBD to sell a separate revegetation project,
00:27their political rivals found common ground at the rally.
00:31This has become an all too familiar fight.
00:33A uni party of the Greens and the Liberals opposing everything, opposing major events in South Australia.
00:41We want to see a vibrant Adelaide, but we also want to see the parklands protected and preserved.
00:46Those two aims are not mutually exclusive.
00:49585 trees will be removed from the northern parklands for the course upgrade.
00:53The exact number for the MotoGP track still yet to be confirmed.
00:57The level of support this protest movement has among the wider community is a matter of debate.
01:03The government says it took its plans for the northern parklands to the March election
01:07and was delivered a mandate to go ahead with the work.
01:10But protesters here say they disagree.
01:13A Stop the Chop petition was delivered to Parliament last week bearing more than 40,000 signatures
01:18and triggering an inquiry.
01:19The least the state government can do is put a pause on any further destruction
01:23while our committee properly investigates.
01:25Also in dispute, crowd numbers at today's event.
01:28With no official figure available, organisers say 10,000 people were there.
01:32Labor using artificial intelligence to generate their own calculation of fewer than 1,000.
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