King Electorate

Ms LUETHEN (King) (15:41): I want to put on the record today my thanks to King constituents for speaking up about what is most important to them. As we lead up to the election in 2022, I think it is important for constituents to know what their member has delivered. I am proud to be part of the Marshall Liberal government that has delivered a lot for the local King community this term. Some of these local deliverables have included:

$98 million upgrade to the Modbury Hospital to deliver better health services closer to home;

$58 million upgrade to the Lyell McEwin Hospital and a car park extension;

$50 million upgrade to Golden Grove Road;

$33 million to build a new Golden Grove park-and-ride;

$15.5 million redevelopment and facilities upgrade to Golden Grove High School to get us ready for year 7s moving to high school;

$5 million facility upgrade to Greenwith Primary School;

$4 million for an upgrade to Salisbury East High School and a further $355,000 for maintenance works;

$140,000 for a new Tindale Christian School general learning area;

$100,000 for Pedare Christian College for a new outdoor mega pit learning area;

government school maintenance grants, including $100,000 for Salisbury East High School, $70,000 for Salisbury Heights Primary School and $20,000 each for Salisbury Park Primary School, One Tree Hill Primary School, Golden Grove High School, Golden Grove Primary School and Greenwith Primary School;

$50,000 to every preschool in King for maintenance works;

$6 million for the Golden Grove Primary School capital works project, which is in its early planning stages;

$6 million for an important upgrade to Harper's Field through the Local Government Infrastructure Partnership Program;

$369,800 towards new clubrooms at the Golden Grove Tennis Club;

over $400,000 South Australian District Netball Association for car park and 20 courts to be upgraded;

$325,000 for a slip lane at Skyline Drive in Hillbank;

$13 million joint upgrade with the federal government for the Main North Road, Kings Road and McIntyre Road intersection;

$250,000 for a permanent backup generator for the One Tree Hill township water supply;

Black Top Road resurfacing works and fixing the undulation and safety shoulders;

a grant towards asbestos removal works at the One Tree Hill Country Fire Service;

Little Para Reservoir has been opened up for land-based recreational activities;

$750,000 has been provided to the City of Tea Tree Gully towards a $1.5 million adventure playground at Golden Fields;

a new Telstra phone tower at Gould Creek;

additional park rangers;

the Para Wirra Conservation Park has grown, with the addition of 179 hectares of land to the park in August 2020;

nearly $1 million of Active Club sporting grants;

the expansion of the Sports Vouchers program across the state, with a $10 million investment per year and the program extended across years 8 and 9; and

$10 million package of planning works to include a study of Main North Road corridor; the intersection of Main North Road, the Grove Way and Saints Road, which will be considered as part of this study.

We are delivering a massive $7.4 billion spend on health, which includes an unprecedented $163.5 million mental health package, with a new crisis stabilisation centre in the north and a new older persons' mental health centre at Modbury Hospital. I say thank you to my community for speaking up and letting me know what is most important so I can advocate and deliver. Please let me know what we should be fighting for next.

I would also like to thank Golden Grove Primary School for their willingness to create a tidal wave of kindness across their school. Congratulations to the following students who recently received the term 4 Paula Luethen kindness award at a recent assembly: Laura Fehlmann, Chloe Scalzi, Livy Powardy, Wyatt Moore, Amelia Elliot, Emma Dreschler, Hudson Smith, Abigail O'Grady and Ivy Schutz. You are making such a difference to your community.

It was my absolute pleasure at the beginning of the assembly, after a whole year of kindness awards, to say, 'Who has been kind this term?' and to see a wave of around 600 little hands go up because everyone is spreading kindness throughout the school community. Well done, everyone in the King electorate.