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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Adelaide Electorate

Ms HOOD (Adelaide) (15:26): A few weeks ago, it was the first day of the new school year, and I was visiting Sturt Street Community School, where I am proud to be on the governing council. When I was chatting to the receptionist at the front desk, I noticed a big box of apples. Apples at a primary school do not really seem out of place, but something compelled me to ask Sally the receptionist, who I have known for a number of years, what this big box of apples was doing on the front desk.

I am glad I did, because she said that every Monday for the past 10 years a local resident has donated that big box of apples and delivered it to the school, providing a piece of fresh fruit for every single student. For more than a decade, this generous individual, this generous local in our community, has chosen to remain anonymous. They do not want recognition or reward; they simply want to give back. It is stories like that that make me so incredibly proud to be the member for Adelaide. We might live in a capital city electorate, but you will find that same generosity of spirit, those same close-knit connections that you would find in any country town.

Sunday 19 March marks one year since the Malinauskas Labor government was elected, and for the past 12 months I have been working every single day to deliver on the commitments that I made to our community. They are commitments that are focused on creating a stronger, healthier and more connected neighbourhood. They are commitments like pocket parks to increase our tree canopy and cool our suburbs and provide more open green space. They are around creating community hubs like a brand-new Adelaide Aquatic Centre and bringing back a community sport and recreation hub at the Walkerville YMCA site. It is improving road safety in our community, like a new roundabout at the Howard Street-Rosetta Street intersection in Collinswood, which is a notorious crash corner, as well as a new 25 km/h school zone at Gilles Street.

Over the past year, my local community and I have also been working together to develop and succeed with local community wins. They are very small wins but really make such a huge impact to the daily lives of locals in my area. They are things like the new keep-clear zone at the intersection of Main North Road and Penn Place, which allows locals to exit their suburb onto those busy main roads; turning a redundant mail zone on Hutt Street into an additional car park, which makes such a huge difference to the local small businesses and allows more people to support those local small businesses; and new signage at the Prospect Road-Fitzroy Terrace intersection, which alerts motorists to how many cyclists and pedestrians use that intersection every day.

As I said, these local community wins all happen because of locals in my community: when I am out knocking on doors, when I am holding community catch-ups, when you reach out to me and my team raising the issues that matter to you. It is my privilege to be your local MP, to listen, to act and deliver for our neighbourhood. I cannot wait for the next 12 months.

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