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

Ms HOOD (Adelaide) (15:24): I rise to talk about an incredibly busy couple of weeks in my community. Just a couple of weeks ago, we launched the incredible Chihuly exhibition at the Adelaide Botanic Garden. This is a free event for locals, for South Australians, for families. I am quite obsessed with this exhibition. It is absolutely breathtaking. I went along to the launch, which was in the evening, but just the other day I took my two children along and it was amazing to see the Adelaide Botanic Garden packed to the brim. There were families everywhere, grandparents, children, there were lines at the cafeteria, it was so wonderful seeing so many people across South Australia coming to the Adelaide Botanic Garden for this free special event. It is on until April, so I cannot recommend highly enough to get along to see this amazing exhibition.

In the arts space, I was also very fortunate to officially open the Walkerville Art Show. This is an amazing local community-run art show by Walkerville Rotary. They do an incredible job. We have over 600 pieces of art work at St Andrew's hall, with funds going to really important projects and causes both locally and abroad. I just want to say a huge shout-out to the Walkerville Rotary for the incredible work they do each year with the Walkerville Art Show. It really does get bigger and better every year.

Our Social Media Summit at the Adelaide Convention Centre was a real eye-opener. It is very sobering, and our Premier has been leading the charge in looking at ways we can better protect children, including pushing for bans for social media for children under 14. We have also been banning mobile phones in schools. We have obviously made the announcement as well to look at teaching high school students around the dangers of social media. That was a fantastic summit to attend.

On Sunday I enjoyed a beautiful bike ride through my community to the upgrade to the entry statement to Hutt Street. This is one of my $3 million commitments to my community and it was wonderful to see the project complete; that is, new shared paths, new trees, new art work, a new Parklands trail crossing, and also some footpaths made out of recycled car tyres. It was wonderful to get on the bike and enjoy seeing that election commitment delivered and seeing people enjoying it. I saw other families on their bikes, I saw parents pushing prams, it was really wonderful to see how we can better bring people and draw people in to our beautiful Hutt Street, our main street.

That brings me to another beloved main street in my community: Melbourne Street. I have a $1 million commitment there to revitalise that main street, the heart of that main street where our small businesses are. We have been undertaking those upgrades over recent months, with new planter boxes, new greenery, new banners, we have a lighting project out at the moment for small businesses to apply for festoon lighting and really just creating a more vibrant, welcoming and positive place in Melbourne Street.

It is quite disappointing actually to see some councillors from the City of Adelaide play politics with that funding last week when it came to the question of wombat crossings. Over four years ago, a councillor had actually moved a motion to have council look at installing a wombat crossing on Melbourne Street and in four years the City of Adelaide have done absolutely nothing. So to try to play politics with my money that I had advocated for, worked hard for—I secured that funding and now am delivering on that commitment to revitalise our main street to support our small businesses—was incredibly disappointing. I would actually like to offer some free advice to those City of Adelaide councillors: maybe you should do the work, secure the funding and actually deliver what you promise.

I would also like to inform the house that with great sadness last week I learnt of the passing of an incredible local in our community, Tony Pederick OAM, a passionate member of the Lions Club of Adelaide and a beloved past district governor. My sincere condolences to his beloved wife, Marilyn; daughter, Petrea; son, Richard; son-in-law, Andrew; daughter-in-law, Katie; grandchildren, Indiana, Addison, Emily and Lachlan; his extended family; and, importantly, the Lions family. He leaves behind an incredible legacy, and I want to share with you his Lions mantra: 'Together we are united, hear us roar.' Vale Tony Pederick OAM.

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