Adelaide Electorate

Ms HOOD (Adelaide) (15:12): I rise to give the house an update on some of my key election commitments that have been proceeding at pace during our parliament winter break. First is our brand-new Adelaide Aquatic Centre. Just last week, I had the pleasure of attending another milestone in this important election commitment for my community, alongside our Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, which was laying the foundations of the three inside pools at the Adelaide Aquatic Centre. The three pools include the main 50-metre pool, the rehabilitation pool and the learn-to-swim pool. It is a very exciting milestone in this brand-new project.

It is going to be so significant for our community once the new centre is opened. We have indoor and outdoor pools that are 100 per cent powered by renewable energy, and built wherever possible with locally sourced low-carbon materials. We have splash zones and we have waterslides, a café, gym, spa and sauna. It is going to be such an incredible community hub for my local area and beyond.

You do not often get community hubs like this where people from literally all walks of life and all ages are coming together to stay fit, active, healthy and connected to community. Everyone from babies through to seniors are undertaking swimming lessons, undertaking laps and deep-water aquarobics, plus all the clubs from water polo to swimming clubs.

Another exciting element of this project is that we are actually returning 1,000 square metres of Parklands to the community as part of this important project. That is a win-win. We are getting brand-new infrastructure—state-of-the-art infrastructure, community infrastructure—and also returning more green space to our community. I do think that is the definition of a win-win.

Another exciting election commitment that is moving forward is returning a community sport and rec hub to the former YMCA site at Smith Street in Walkerville. Only about a week ago there was a very exciting announcement that the Town of Walkerville, who we are in partnership with on delivering this project, has announced the successful builder for the brand-new recreation centre, which is Hutchinson Builders.

It is going to provide a multipurpose community space for Walkerville and our surrounding suburbs. We will be expanding from one court at the old and run-down facility to two courts. It is really exciting for local sporting clubs like our Walkerville Netball Club. Funnily enough, they are called the Walkerville Netball Club but they do not actually play a lot of netball in Walkerville itself. It is really exciting to be delivering a community centre where we are actually going to have our local netballers playing netball, or training at the very least, in our local community. It is going to be multipurpose. We want all different sporting groups undertaking different activities, as well as all ages participating in this new community centre. We are hoping to see construction occurring soon and we hope to open this brand-new facility towards the end of next year. That is another really exciting project in our community.

A short stroll away on the boundary of Collinswood and Nailsworth we have the upgrade underway of R.L. Pash park. I was just down there the other day speaking as the guest speaker for the Prospect Probus, which is at the Nailsworth Community Hall, right next to R.L. Pash park, so I was able to get a really good update on how those works are going. One thing I noticed when doorknocking around that local area is that a lot of us are attracted to my community particularly when we have young children. It is such a beautiful place to raise young kids. However, those kids obviously start getting a little bit older and they look for activities to do that are not inside stuck on a screen. What we wanted to do with the park is to create a few elements in the park that will be exciting for kids as they start to grow older.

As part of this upgrade of the R.L. Pash park, in partnership with the City of Prospect, we are going to have a climbing boulder for those kids, as they get a bit older, to try new activities, as well as a table tennis table. We are doing an upgrade to stormwater management, which will incorporate water play for the younger kids. We are going to upgrade all its exercise equipment. Importantly, what I heard from the consultation is that we want to maintain the open green space in that park as well. We are hoping to have the upgrade of that park complete towards the end of the year. I look forward to inviting my local community to the opening of the upgraded park.