One Tree Hill

Ms LUETHEN (King) (15:40): I gratefully rise in parliament today to speak about the beautiful area of One Tree Hill and its surrounding areas of Gould Creek, Uleybury, Yattalunga and Bibaringa. I feel grateful for the many friends I have made through the time I have been serving the people in the One Tree Hill area, including Michael and Domenica Ferraro, Donna Grantham, Bev, Peter and Margaret Watson, Bindi Onion, Ian and Faye Slater, Fred Riley, Brian Water, Ian Fordham, Carolyn and Garry Walsh and so many other people I meet on a Friday night at the Blacksmiths Inn for Patrons Night.

The One Tree Hill area is full of rolling hills, kangaroos, grazing sheep and cattle, large trees and a very welcoming community, and the community have been really helpful telling me their areas of concerns and opportunities. For example, after the previous Labor government ignored the need for a backup electricity generator for over a decade, the township made it really clear to me how important this was, and the Marshall Liberal government is delivering a solution by the end of the year.

I am really grateful to the dedicated One Tree Hill Progress Association, which played a key role in this outcome. The progress association regularly discusses and advocates for important matters in the area, such as the backup generator, the need for Blacktop Road to be resurfaced and rate hikes by the City of Playford. They organise the wonderful ANZAC Day services and the fabulous One Tree Hill markets.

The local progress association also produces the monthly One Tree Hill Grapevine, which is delivered to One Tree Hill postboxes in the area. The Grapevine shares local news and events and promotes local businesses. In this month's issue, locals are being asked to consider joining the One Tree Hill Cricket Club, the vet advice is back, and local councillor Natasha Steen has some wise words about helping our kids. You can also read about the fabulous One Tree Hill Scouts and Cubs' recent camping trip, which my son thoroughly enjoyed, and of course there is the regular report from the One Tree Hill Progress President, Graham Watson.

There are so many local businesses in the community that give back and fundraise for the community too, like Kamcheyenne Limousin, a beef cattle stud. They often set up at the One Tree Hill General Store Diner on market day, cooking up a barbecue to raise money for local groups, such as the One Tree Hill Primary School and the Northern Hills Pony Club. They also bring along their cattle to market and ask people to bring along a carrot as a special treat. You can buy their amazing meat, which is healthy, clean, lean, tender and local yearling beef.

I would also like to acknowledge and thank the One Tree Hill Sports Association, which recently invited many community members along to discuss the exciting plans the clubs, state government and council have been working on to upgrade the facilities at McGilp Recreation Park. Together, we have created plans and progressed plans and costings for an upgrade, which are now enabling us to lobby together for funding support to turn these plans into outcomes.

I would like to thank the president of the Sports Association, Gary, and the tennis club, soccer club, cricket club, CFS and importantly the local community for all contributing their ideas towards these plans. I am looking forward to the One Tree Hill Cricket Club, the Billies, whose motto is 'Fear the goat', commencing its 2021-22 season.

The Billies welcome players of all abilities to join them, and thanks to Ben Schmidtke for your leadership. I am stoked that our two King cricket teams, the Billies and the Brumbies, are having their first King playoff this year and encourage our community to come along and support their fundraising day. Two of King's soccer teams have already had a magnificent playoff and they raised thousands of dollars for the Tea Tree Gully CFS and One Tree Hill CFS.

I would also like to give a big plug for the awesome One Tree Hill Institute which is a beautiful, historic, maintained building, and I thank Pat Jones for your tireless efforts to make this available for weddings, engagement parties and, of course, community meetings. I ask everyone to come along to the markets at One Tree Hill on the first Saturday of the month in this beautiful place.

I would like to mention the One Tree Hill Uniting Church and their lovely Sunday morning service, the One Tree Hill Scouts, the visionary Vince at Da Vince and, finally, Hilltop Fresh Flowers, another local family business growing flowers on site at One Tree Hill and distributing them across the state. It is an amazing part of the King electorate.