Trimper AM, Mr K.

Mrs PEARCE (King) (15:40): I would like to take a moment to reflect on the extraordinary influence that one man, Kelvin Trimper, has had on my local community. In fact, influence does not go far enough to explain it. Mr Trimper is the reason why Golden Grove is as we know it today. His work in developing our community has won high accolades left, right and centre.

For example, take the provision of our education services which he was instrumental in establishing through Delfin Lend Lease's leadership. For those who have not been in my community, a lot of my school sections have been developed in such a way that we have our public facilities shared with private facilities so that students across the board can get the absolute best from their education services. It was so special in fact that in the eighties the then minister Greg Crafter described his work as the most modern, innovative and exciting community education complex being developed in Australia.

Even today we continue to have experts from all over the country visiting our community to learn more about the planning that went into our education system, to learn how they too can replicate it to enhance their local communities. There is something uniquely beautiful about my local community and, as we recently passed a 40-year milestone of what was at the time identified as the benchmark of Australian urban development, I believe it is important to reflect on the man behind it and honour his memory.

In addition to the implementation of the schools strategy, Kelvin was also responsible for the landscape strategy as well as overall responsibility for product development and delivery, community and education planning, and inventory management, and that is literally just the tip of the iceberg. He also played a significant role in the development of Mawson Lakes, developments within the City of Tea Tree Gully, as well as projects within the Housing Trust.

He has provided advice to government and non-government sectors throughout Australia and also the United Kingdom and has been a keynote speaker at AECD education conferences all over the world. He has had countless appointments to boards and committees covering fields such as development and planning, the environment, economics and horticulture.

If that was not enough, Kelvin was also a world-acclaimed rosarian. Growing up in Renmark with world famous rose experts David Ruston OAM and his father, Kelvin soon developed a deep and true passion for roses so much so that he became president of the World Federation of Rose Societies. Kelvin's achievements include his election as president, then receiving a gold medal at the end of his three-year term. He also served as president of both the National Rose Society of Australia and the Rose Society of South Australia, and he received numerous awards over the years. These included the Australian Rose Award and the T.A. Stewart Memorial Award, the highest honours for service to the rose in Australia. It is fitting that Kelvin received an Order of Australia AM for both his leadership qualities and his contribution to property development and horticulture as well.

Kelvin lived and worked in northern Adelaide for 35 years and there are numerous examples of where he assisted the community using his skills and experience while volunteering his time, for which we are incredibly grateful. It is something about a country upbringing, I believe, as a country lad who developed an ethos for volunteering one's time for the good of community. This was something that Kelvin absolutely lived by and imparted to others he met along his way on his journey.

Kelvin was an innovator, an educator, who believed in every individual, irrespective of culture, ability and status, to realise their full potential. He was a devoted husband and an adoring father. He was a lover of nature and the environment and a man who appreciated good food, good wine, his roses, fruit trees and his vegetables as well. Most importantly, Kelvin loved sharing the knowledge and ideas to be able to help make the world a better place, starting right in our local community of Golden Grove. For all he has done, my community is the richer for it. As we pass 40 years, we reflect upon and thank this great man. Vale Kelvin Trimper.