Elder Electorate

Ms CLANCY (Elder) (15:16): I rise today to talk about a couple of things that happened last week: one in the community and one in my portfolio in the mental health space. I held my annual seniors forum last Wednesday at the Edwardstown Baptist Church—which, confusingly, is actually in St Marys—and we are really grateful to them for letting us use their facilities again, which are really topnotch.

I also want to thank Becks Bakehouse and Pasadena Foodland for catering the event. It was a very popular morning tea. I also want to thank all the local residents who came along to the forum to hear from our speakers. We had the RAA, Aged Rights Advocacy Service and SAPOL all present, and their presentations were listened to very intently. We have received really good feedback about the forum, and people felt they received a lot of really helpful information. It was really lovely to see a lot of familiar faces from our community, as well as some new ones.

I am sure the former Minister for Transport would love to hear that the crowd cheered when I spoke about the expansion of the free travel for seniors that we introduced. They are using it so much. It has been a really great change for people and it has meant that a lot of older people in our community are now using our public transport system no matter what time of day, because it is more accessible to them now that it is free all the time.

I also want to thank all of our stallholders. We had a number of them who were there to answer any questions and provide information. Some of them had some cool little goodies. There were lots of bookmarks with magnifying glasses in them and cleaning products for glasses—lots of fun stuff. Everyone went away with a Nadia Clancy show bag full of goodies.

I want to thank organisations such as the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, Carers SA, COTA SA and some of our local organisations who do such good work bringing people together on a regular basis, like our Probus clubs. So thank you, and I look forward to putting on another seniors forum next year if I have pleasure of being re-elected as the member for Elder.

On Thursday night, I attended the Mental Health Coalition of South Australia's Lived Experience Workforce Program awards. I have attended these awards for the last three, maybe four years, and they are always a really special evening to recognise the incredibly important work that the Lived Experience Workforce does in our community and for the mental health sector. I really appreciate everyone in that workforce who provides such an important insight into what someone is experiencing and is willing to use their own personal experience in their work to support somebody else. Congratulations to all of the nominees for the awards. I want to congratulate the winners, Mark Godfrey and Jadee-Mae Cartledge, as well as the joint winners of the Lived Experience Program award, which was Safe Haven and LETSS (Lived Experience Telephone Support Service).

I give a particular shout-out to Safe Haven. I was really pleased to go to their opening when they first started, and it is a really special place where people with lived experience are able to support those who can just walk in and have someone to talk to who actually really does get it. Safe Haven has already supported 8,000 people, so they are making a really big difference in our northern suburbs and I am really grateful for that.

Lastly, I would just like to encourage everybody to get involved in the Torrens to Darlington tunnel-boring machine naming competition. I was stoked to be in Clovelly Park at the site of the T2D work on Sunday for a press conference where we announced that the biggest part of the tunnel-boring machine had arrived. In the middle of the night it had come down Port Road and then South Road and just seeing that piece of machinery, along with all the other bits that are going to slowly be welded on over a six-week period, was pretty outstanding and really exciting.

Everyone can get online. You can go onto my Facebook as well and see how you can get involved. You just need to put forward a name. I think you get up to 30 words to say why you have chosen that name and it needs to be a female name. Just think, you can be a part of history and feel more connected to this huge infrastructure project.

There are three machines. Nadia is a pretty good name, but there are also lots of different names that would be great for the tunnel-boring machines to be named after and, as I am sure the member for Hammond would agree, it would probably be strange for something 'boring' to be named after me, because I am obviously anything but. I encourage everybody to get involved. I thank you very much.

The SPEAKER: I would call it Doug. The member for Hammond.