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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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SAFE COMMUNITIES INNER NORTH-EAST

Mrs GERAGHTY (Torrens) (15:40): On Monday last week I attended the unveiling of three very special murals at the Wandana Community Centre on Blacks Road at Gilles Plains. The murals were commissioned by the Safe Communities Inner North-East Group—now fondly known by its acronym SCINE—through a community arts grant provided by the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. The murals depict important safety messages: one around water safety, one on safety around the home, and the other regarding safety on our roads and footpaths.

There was considerable community participation in the design of the murals, and special mention needs to be made of the input from the Wandana Primary School (which is in the member for Florey's electorate), the Uighur Language School, members of the Blind Welfare Society (a very jolly lot, I might say), and the local community. The Wandana Community Centre said that to design one of the murals was one of the most inspiring events with which the organisers had the pleasure to be involved, and there was an exceptional contribution by members of the Blind Welfare Society as well as participants from the local community.

SCINE is a coalition of community service agencies located in the inner north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, servicing Gilles Plains, Hillcrest, Holden Hill and Windsor Gardens. SCINE has been established to promote injury prevention and implement community safety initiatives under the guidance of the international safe communities indicators from the World Health Organisation's Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion. It is rather a mouthful, but it has a very great impact in the community.

At the unveiling it was pleasing to see all these groups come together. It was particularly pleasing to have the Mayor of Port Adelaide Enfield there, Gary Johanson—he is exceptionally kind to the member for Florey and myself, very complimentary—along with Dale West, the CEO of Centacare Adelaide.

An honourable member interjecting:

Mrs GERAGHTY: Yes; Dale is indeed a wonderful fellow. The fundamental aim of SCINE is to reduce the risk of preventable injuries through community education, joint project development, promotion of the ideology of safe communities, and a willingness of agency partners to actively engage in SCINE programs. Some of the agency partners are the City of Port Adelaide Enfield (as I said), the City of Tea Tree Gully, Wandana Primary School, the Wandana Community Centre, the North-East Community House, Hillcrest and Holden Hill community centres, Frances Bedford and her office, WorkSafe SA, and a number of other interested groups. Of course, my office is also involved. These groups, with others, signed a memorandum of understanding of interested parties, giving an ongoing commitment to the Safe Communities Inner North-East Group.

The SCINE group has undertaken a number of initiatives, apart from the murals that were launched. Last year the group undertook a community safety awareness day at the Wandana Community Centre, and I must say that it was a most interesting event.

The Hon. J.D. Hill interjecting:

Mrs GERAGHTY: Yes; the Minister for Health has just said 'fantastic'. They are currently considering undertaking an initiative that would promote safety audits in local areas, including schools and homes.

While the SCINE group is in its relative infancy, similar groups are being established around Australia—and, for that matter, around the world—all with similar objectives of working to make our surroundings safer, and I think it might be worth members having a look at what the group is doing. They are a fantastic group of people with whom to be involved, and I am sure that the member for Florey would concur. It makes us very proud to be associated with them, and I wish them all the best with their initiatives.

Anything that we do to make our community and people in our communities safer is to be commended. I would urge members to have a look at the program, because it is something that is very valuable to have in our electorates, particularly the work they do around safety for elderly people in their homes and walking around our communities. I am sure we have all tripped over a footpath here and there.

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