The Adelaide Park Lands Act 2005 states that each State authority (as defined under the Act) must prepare a management plan within 2-years after adoption of the Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy. That strategy 'Towards 2020', prepared by the Adelaide Park Lands Authority, has now been adopted. For the cultural heritage institutions under the care and control of the Minister for the Arts, Arts SA has developed a draft Management Plan which outlines the existing purpose of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Migration Museum, South Australian Museum and the State Library of South Australia and their important and historic role in preserving the park lands for the benefit of present and future generations. Public consultation is invited in February 2012. All comments can be made to Arts SA at the contact details below. A public meeting will be held at the end of the consultation period.

Adelaide's Park Lands have long been home to large events, as well as numberless small, private encounters. Until now, no book has been published to document this wealth of social activity. In The Adelaide Park Lands, Sumerling recounts tales both enchanting and bizarre from the time of earliest European settlement until present days.