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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2023-06-27 Daily Xml
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Inspirational Women

Ms HOOD (Adelaide) (15:33): I rise today to talk about some really inspiring women I am lucky to have in my circle. That includes all my amazing female colleagues here in this place and the other place, and also in my role I get the amazing opportunity to meet with really incredible, talented women. One of those opportunities came up today.

We invited our Australian of the Year South Australian recipients into parliament to acknowledge them, celebrate them and talk about just how much they have done to contribute to our society. Amongst them were our South Australian Senior Australian of the Year, Aboriginal rights activist Sandra Miller; our SA Local Hero, Christine Robertson OAM, who is the co-founder of Lost Pets of SA; and in particular, last but not least, the amazing Taryn Brumfitt, who went on to claim Australian of the Year for 2023.

Taryn is a body image activist. She is a writer, she is a director, she is a keynote speaker, she is a mum and she is an incredible inspiration to me and so many others. For those who might not have seen her documentary Embrace, which was released in 2016, it gives you a new perspective on how you go about living your life based on who you are on the inside and what you contribute to society rather than what you look like.

Taryn went on to work on a piece of work called Embrace Kids, which looks at imagining a world where young people do not have to worry about what they look like but where young people are appreciated for who they are and what they do rather than what they look like. I was really inspired by this piece of work, having two young children of my own, and it got people in my community thinking about how we can bring this piece of work to more kids in my community.

Enter the beautiful Piccadilly Cinema and the incredible Deanna Wallis from the Wallis family, an amazing South Australian family. I was able to visit the Piccadilly yesterday and give Deanna the exciting news that the state government will be supporting a screening of Embrace Kids at the Piccadilly Cinema for the local autistic and autism community.

This is an initiative that has the support of our Assistant Minister for Autism, the Hon. Emily Bourke MLC in the other place, and also our Premier. The idea is that we will be putting on a screening of Taryn's amazing piece of work, Embrace Kids, in the next school holidays in October for the local autistic and autism community. We will be making sure it is an appropriate sensory experience for those people coming along, and we cannot wait to bring this incredibly important documentary to more people within our community.

For those who have not been to the Piccadilly, I want to give a big shout-out to the amazing team behind its restoration. It is such a beautiful Art Deco cinema. It was closed for 14 months and they have lovingly restored this absolute gem, this iconic cinema in the heart of North Adelaide. I really want to encourage people to go along, to support our local businesses in our area, to support amazing cinemas like this that have been so lovingly restored. There are some great movies coming out. There is Barbie, there is Indiana Jones, there is Mission Impossible, so if you have not been down to O'Connell Street lately I encourage you to go along, see a movie, grab some popcorn and support an amazing local building in my local community.

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