King Electorate

Ms LUETHEN (King) (15:21): Hashtag #listening. Over the past couple of months, I have held a series of listening posts to continue to engage my local community in King and have had some very productive conversations about their views on the state government's performance since 17 March. On Friday 15 June, Saturday 23 June, Friday 20 July and Saturday 28 July, I held listening posts at The Grove Shopping Centre in Golden Grove in King. These listening posts were advertised to my community through a flyer that was letterboxed by my dedicated and hardworking volunteers and through my social media platforms.

I would like to thank my volunteers for assisting me in reaching out to the whole of the King community. I would also like to thank the many people who called in with a copy of the flyer they received to provide feedback, to share their ideas and to have a conversation about the future of King and South Australia. I would further like to thank the many people who could not make the listening posts, but who have contacted me via email and booked other one-on-one chances to catch up and share their feedback.

The main topics of discussion that were raised during my listening posts have included, in no particular order, power costs, council rate capping (many conversations on council rate capping), the emergency services levy saving that we have passed on, and the Modbury and Lyell McEwin hospitals. In fact, last Saturday I had a constituent who works in our hospital systems share with me how bad that culture and environment has been in relation to the pressure of Transforming Health that has been put on her and other hospital staff.

It is good to be able to tell people working in that system that we have plans to improve it. People have also raised the issues of jobs and youth unemployment, local roads, support for small business, child protection, domestic violence, mental health, the NDIS, aged care and decriminalisation of sex work. We have also had various discussions around supporting our local clubs and organisations.

I really appreciate the variety of conversations I have had with people and value their time and effort in putting their feedback on the table with me in having these conversations. I ask the rest of my community to continue to contact me to discuss your ideas and concerns so that we can make our community and state the best place to live. A special thankyou to minister David Pisoni who came out to a listening post with me and gave up a few hours of his time to speak with the local King community. On one of these dates, as I recall when he was out there once again, we had very in-depth conversations with a nurse on ideas to improve our health system.

I will be having some more listening posts in September and October, and these will be advertised to my King community in the near future. I wanted to be able to say to anyone who could be listening that I also have the Premier coming out to King on Wednesday 8 August and he will be hosting with me an afternoon tea community forum. A big thankyou to our Premier for giving up some of his time to come out and listen to our community. The afternoon tea community forum will be on 8 August at The Grove tavern in Surrey Downs from 3pm to 4.30pm. Also, I wanted to be able to touch today—

Mr Odenwalder interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms LUETHEN: —on the Carisbrooke Parkrun. I would now like to take this opportunity to talk about local community events that I and my family have supported recently which are fantastic local community events. To start with, I will mention the Carisbrooke Parkrun, which is an event my family and I enjoy attending on Saturday mornings, which is a five kilometre fun run which occurs every Saturday at 8am in Carisbrooke. The beauty about this parkrun is that it is completely free to participate and you do not even need to register before you do your first run or walk or whatever suits you.

Another beautiful spot that I visited recently with my family has been the wonderful Tenafeate winery which recently held their vertical shiraz tasting event where you got have a chat with the local wine producer. In conclusion, thank you, Mr Speaker, for the opportunity to talk about the Premier coming to King very soon.

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