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

Ms HOOD (Adelaide) (15:30): Today does mark two years since the election of the Malinauskas Labor government, and today I want to speak on not just my election commitments that I am delivering, but those community wins, those little things that can make a big difference to the community.

In terms of my election commitments, over the last two years we have already delivered a 25 km/h school zone for Gilles Street Primary School and Pulteney. It still beggars belief that you can have two busy CBD schools and have cars travelling at 50 km/h, so I am so glad that we have been able to create a much safer street in front of those two schools. I have delivered the very popular Prospect Pocket Park in my community, completely changing the view of Scotty's Corner, one of the busiest intersections that you will find. We are greening that space. We are adding new trees and making that an important community space. We are also better promoting our beloved free City Connector. It is so lovely now that when you see the free City Connector, it does not just blend in the same as any other bus, it is covered in beautiful and vibrant artwork by the very talented local artist Robert Eckert.

In terms of my other election commitments, we have our brand-new Adelaide Aquatic Centre, with earthworks underway. We are looking forward to getting into major works from July. We are also delivering an upgrade to R L Pash Reserve in Nailsworth and, in Collinswood, a new roundabout at the Howard and Rosetta Street intersection, with works just starting last week to make that intersection much safer for locals. We are also expanding Botanic High and I cannot wait to see us welcome new students in the next term.

As I was saying, there are also things you do as a local MP that are the small community wins that make a huge difference to our local community. In the next four minutes, I want to see if I can run through the more than 20 community wins that we have been able to deliver, working together with locals in my community. I start with the new pedestrian crossing at Fitzroy Terrace. I want to thank locals like Ron, Jane and their dog Ned for supporting this safer crossing.

On College Avenue in Prospect for the last two or three years we have been running a campaign against the installation of a second mobile phone tower that would have been just 70 metres from an existing phone tower. It would have looked like we had goalposts in our local neighbourhood. We took on a David and Goliath battle against Optus, and we won. I want to thank James, David, Karen and Enzo. We were the 'five musketeers'. We took on a giant and we won that battle.

We have also introduced a 'keep clear' zone at the Main North Road and Penn Place intersection. I want to thank local Jessica for raising that issue. It makes getting out of her local street much safer and easier for her and many other residents. We removed a 'mail zone at all times' sign on Hutt Street that was taking away parking for local residents. I want to thank Hutt Street Chicken and Seafood for raising that issue. We were able to replace the mail zone—even though there was no post office—with a half-hour parking sign to improve parking for that beloved main street.

In February last year, we had a huge community win to green our neighbourhood, where I announced that we had secured three pocket parks for that local area—not just one, but three, on Churchill Road and Drayton and Chief Streets. I want to thank locals James, Steve and Iolanthe, and councillors Kristina Barnett and Trinh Nguyen for their work on delivering those community wins.

There was also a new netball ring installed under the Ovingham overpass. Often netball gets looked aside for basketball rings, but locals Sophie, Sibella and I took on that challenge, and we saw a netball ring installed. We installed a Keep Clear zone for Nottage Terrace to provide easier access into Corbin Road. We secured a Prospect school precinct traffic study to look at traffic improvements around Gladstone Road, Olive Street, and Braund Road. That is now underway. We secured a Do Not Queue Over Intersection signage and expanded Keep Clear zone for Fitzroy Terrace.

We won another Keep Clear zone for locals exiting D'Erlanger Avenue, Collinswood onto Nottage Terrace, so thanks so much to Anna for her staunch advocacy on this. We have additional traffic measures for Fitzroy Terrace to provide better instructions for locals on which lane goes where. We secured a commitment from Adelaide City Council to reinstate bus stop 4 on Melbourne Street after our community campaign. We found a new home for the police greys off the Parklands at Gepps Cross, listening to the community. We have had an improved pedestrian crossing closed on Main North Road to make it more accessible for those in mobility scooters and wheelchairs. Thanks to local, Peter, for his advocacy.

In the very small time I have left, we have secured installation of a new park bench on Pulteney Street. We have introduced a code amendment to look at prohibiting adult entertainment in the East End. Thanks to Lindsay, Andrew, Gayle and many East End locals for working with me on this. More recently, in February we prevented buses idling on Hutt Street. Thanks to DIT for changing over the time point location. We have also got a trial going of the free City Connector for an extra bus stop at bus stop V1 on Hutt Street. Thank you so much to the community for working with me on these community wins.

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