Napier Electorate

Mr GEE (Napier) (15:38): Today, I would like to speak about an important local election promise regarding a roundabout in the rural part of my electorate and about the Northern Adelaide Senior Secondary Schools Alliance Venture Dorm Program. Firstly, I want to thank all of our emergency service volunteers who have worked very long hours and delivered a very professional service throughout a very busy time, particularly the Dalkeith and One Tree Hill CFS teams and the Edinburgh SES. I also want to thank all personnel and agencies involved that are working behind the scenes with these groups.

The people of One Tree Hill and surrounding areas have been campaigning for many years for an upgrade of the intersection of the One Tree Hill to Gawler Road, One Tree Hill to Kersbrook Road and Humbug Scrub Road. While speaking with local residents prior to the last election, I committed to lobbying to see if this intersection could be made safer. The community was very supportive, and it is pleasing that works are currently underway to make that intersection safer with the installation of a roundabout and associated infrastructure.

The intersection is a crucial link for local residents to access One Tree Hill, Kersbrook and Gawler, and it is used by many visitors to the Para Wirra Conservation Park and the Humbug Scrub Wildlife Sanctuary, as well as by people touring through the Hills. The state government is investing $3.5 million in this project to try to ensure that no further accidents occur. In addition to the roundabout, there will be new road lighting and safety barriers plus an increase in road signage and a decrease in the speed limit approaching the intersection.

This intersection saw 12 crashes between 2010 and 2014, resulting in one death and 11 injuries—five of them were really serious. I, and many other motorists, have experienced near misses at this intersection over the years. It was really pleasing over the weekend to drive through that intersection and see that the roundabout is now in place and that the works are continuing towards a conclusion in October.

I will now speak about the NASSSA Venture Dorm program, which is a 10-week program run in northern public secondary schools which encourages young people to learn business and innovation skills and to design and present a concept that could be marketed to the community. The program was run by the New Venture Institute at Flinders University, who partnered with major sponsors Raytheon and the City of Salisbury, to deliver the program at the Twelve25 Youth Enterprise Centre.

The program concluded with the graduation and pitch night, which was held on Tuesday of this week. The graduation was attended by minister Bettison, Tony Zappia MP, principals, teachers and parents, and was held at the Mawson Centre in Mawson Lakes. The eight teams pitched their ideas to the audience while they were judged by the Hon. Karlene Maywald; NVI Advisory Council board member, Laki Kondylas from the Northern Economic Plan; and Professor Westell from Flinders University.

All teams provided an excellent presentation of their innovative ideas, how they had developed their ideas and the market research they had undertaken to assess the viability of the product. The innovative ideas included an app to allow young people to divide their phone data between YouTube, Safari, the App Store and other apps, and an app that advises the cheapest place to shop for all items across major and minor stores.

There was another app that allowed people to locate a range of takeaway food services, and a service that allowed young people to access formal make-up services for formals, weddings and other events. Another idea was wheel attachments for prams, to allow them to travel over varied terrain, and an app allowing people to find perfect presents after entering details of the recipient. There were also ethically sourced motivational T-shirts and interchangeable frames.

I thank the New Venture Institute, Flinders University, the City of Salisbury and NASSSA. I particularly recognise Rob Love, who coordinated the program, Ben Flink from the New Venture Institute, Heather Bitter from NASSSA, Alana Sherman and Matt Nankervis from Craigmore High School, and Amy Newbound from Mark Oliphant College.

The winners on the night were Atil, from Mark Oliphant College, who won the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, the students from Paralowie R-12 School who won the Silver Award, and students from Para Hills High School (my old school) who won the Gold Award. The Para Hills High School students will get to meet with a business coach and senior officials from Raytheon.

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