Volunteers, Schubert Electorate

Mrs HURN (Schubert) (15:31): I rise to share with the chamber some of the contributions of thousands of people in my community who volunteer so much of their time to ensure that our community in the Barossa Valley, and indeed right across the Adelaide Hills, remains the thriving place that it is. When I was actually jotting down a number of the organisations and people who I wanted to acknowledge, I realised that there would be no possibility that I would do it in five minutes. So I have decided that I will focus a little bit on some of the people who The Leader newspaper—which is my fantastic local newspaper in the Barossa Valley—recognised as part of National Volunteer Week.

In particular, I would like to acknowledge the work of Mr Trevor Miller from Nuriootpa. For 25 years he has been volunteering his time to help get sick people in our community to all of the health appointments that they need to get to. He is one of many people who contribute so well to that service. It was fantastic to read a little bit about how he got involved in doing this work. Now, at 80 years old, he has finally parked the community car for the last time after doing thousands and thousands of kilometres in service to our community. I would like to thank him and all of the people who contribute to the community service and the community transport car in that way.

I would like to acknowledge the Barossa Area Fundraisers for Cancer and all of the lovely men and women who volunteer their time to help out families, particularly women with cancer, in the Barossa Valley. All of the work that they do in pulling together care packs and transporting people to their appointments in Adelaide really does go such a long way. Their contributions make all the difference in our local community.

I was fascinated to learn of the work done by Carol Craill from Tanunda. She is the manager of Tanunda's Great Revival Shop. She has been volunteering at the Tanunda Great Revival Shop for 15 years, and some of the work that she and the team there have done has been fascinating. They have raised $1 million worth of donations, which is phenomenal. Lots of the initiatives that they have contributed to have made some really lasting contributions in our local community. They have donated to things like to Nuriootpa High School for their fruit bowl program and they have donated to the Drive My Futures program. This shop is run by volunteers only, and they do a fantastic job.

You have heard me speak in the house previously about the work of all of the volunteers through the Barossa Vintage Festival. There have been over 100 of them in this year's festival, three of which were from my office in Kaitlyn, Casey and Carla, so well done to them. They are three of the over 100 volunteers who made the Barossa Vintage Festival such a success. I am looking forward to celebrating that again in two years' time. It was great. I know that they had a volunteer thank you night at the Vine Inn in Nuriootpa, which is wonderful. A shout-out to the town of Williamstown. They were successful in winning the Best Town Float, which I sponsor; again pulled together by volunteers.

Those are just a couple of the organisations and groups that the local Leader newspaper reflected on. I think it goes without saying that there are countless groups that we could be thanking. We have the CFS, we have all of the people in our local sporting clubs, we have gardening groups, people at the bush gardens, we have our men's sheds, we have all of the people who run our town committees. There are just far too many to count. That is not an exhaustive list, but without them our community simply would not be the same.

They are the heart and soul of our community, and they do not do it for our thanks, but in weeks like Volunteer Week, they really do deserve it. I always encourage people in my team and all members of the community to thank people for the work that they can see people doing out and about in our community. They might give an hour or they might be a very dedicated volunteer who has given 25 years' worth of their time and effort. Thank you to all of the volunteers right across the Barossa Valley and the Adelaide Hills. You make our community what it is, and we are so grateful for everything you do.