00:02Salisbury is a good half an hour's drive from the Adelaide Parklands, but it's a lot
00:06closer than where the Australian MotoGP has been held for almost 40 years.
00:11I used to go to Phillip Island all the time.
00:14I love to race but I can't, so it is better for me to watch it.
00:20But concerns over the impact of the street circuit on the Parklands are being felt here too.
00:25We should be planting trees, not chopping them down.
00:27No need for that. They can do better things with their money than cut trees down.
00:33Differing sentiments also reflected across town in the southern suburbs.
00:37I think people outside of the city should have an opinion of it, I reckon,
00:41because it's our wildlife, we want to protect it as much as we can, I reckon.
00:45I think anything that progresses South Australia is a really good thing
00:48and lots of people love it, so I'm all for it.
00:50It puts us on a national stage and on an international stage.
00:54The Parklands Association's held events protesting the tree removals in places like Unley and Prospect,
01:00but says like-minded people are coming from all over.
01:04I'm meeting people who come down from Gawla, from the hills, from Murray Bridge, people across South Australia.
01:10The Parklands Association says it's planning to take its events to the outer suburbs too, as it tries to stop
01:17the project.
01:18But with a tight construction deadline, the state government sought federal environmental approval
01:23in a bid to avoid the legal challenges which delayed the Parklands golf course redevelopment.
01:28People will see that we've got the balance right here about trying to achieve something that is economic,
01:35but also improving the outcome for the Parklands itself when the race isn't on.
01:39A balancing act for the entire state.
01:41The parklands are prepared for the entire state.
01:41This parklands is a اتوا وقت طريقي.
