Gibson Electorate

S.E. ANDREWS (Gibson) (15:45): I would like to congratulate the Marion Rams Football Club women's team for winning the grand final. It was a magnificent display on the Saturday before last. They absolutely nailed the opposition and actually only lost their clean sheet in the final quarter. For the record, the Marion Rams women's team won 7.4-46 against Houghton 1.0-6.

It has been an incredible journey for the women's team at Marion Rams. They were formed six years ago. There were players in the playing group on grand final day who have been there for the whole six years and have been on an incredible journey with the club. Importantly, too, it is worth noting that the team was undefeated this season and pulled through with a grand final win, so a big congratulations. I think it is also worth noting those who were deemed to be the best players on grand final day: a shout-out to Emily Pelling, Darcie Coad, Zoe Smith, Hannah Gordon and Isabelle Dawson. Congratulations and I hope you have recovered from Silly Saturday last weekend.

Also recently in our community the Marion RSL had their AGM last Sunday. I was there for knock-offs on Friday, as I regularly am. It is a lovely place to end the week and catch up with members of our community. I had the opportunity to present the club with a state flag on Friday night, as they were in grave need of a new one to display. At the AGM there was an election for president, of course, and I was pleased to see that it was contested by two women. I would like to congratulate Chere Maynard for winning the election for president and I look forward to working with her. I would also like to acknowledge all of the efforts of the previous president for the last term, Bret Sando. He contributed a massive amount of time and energy to the Marion RSL and I would like to thank him for his service.

Last Saturday night I had the pleasure, along with my colleagues Nadia Clancy and Louise Miller-Frost, of attending the South Adelaide Basketball Club end-of-season dinner. It was fabulous to celebrate a club that works really hard to provide a positive culture for its members. It was a good night, too, to acknowledge not only the players and the coaching staff but all of the administrators, volunteers and parents who enable a club like South Adelaide to flourish. They are a growing club and I look forward to the day that they finally get new courts to play on.

Recently, too, in my community we have been holding a study with regard to traffic in the suburb of Sturt. It was a year ago now when I was doorknocking Sturt and it became very clear very quickly the frustration that residents had exiting their suburb. That is something that all of us have to do every single day and to have that experience every day causes frustration but also, of course, becomes a safety issue. They have trouble getting onto Sturt Road and they have trouble getting onto Marion Road.

Following that doorknocking, I then held a street-corner meeting to give more people an opportunity to share with me their thoughts. I also invited staff from the Department for Infrastructure and Transport to hear first hand the concerns of residents. They have worked really hard, done a traffic study and put all the data together. Just recently, we held forums in the Sturt community to show all that work that the department has done.

They had all the maps out and they had all the data so members of the community in Sturt could come once again to consult, see what the data looks like, see how that lines up with their own experiences and provide feedback and their good ideas about how this suburb can function better so that it is safe for everybody. I would like to thank everyone for their participation in that, because we all want safer communities that function well.