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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Ms HOOD (Adelaide) (15:26): I rise to talk about what has been an incredibly busy couple of weeks in my beautiful community. Starting with the official opening last Saturday of the RL Pash Park upgrade, it was a really beautiful community celebration to come together with lots of locals to celebrate the upgrade of this local park. This is an election commitment I made at the last state election in partnership with the City of Prospect. We have been able to deliver a real refresh to the park whilst retaining the open green space, upgrading the exercise equipment, adding some stormwater management, nature play and also some activities for kids as they grow older in our community, including a climbing boulder, which is very popular with my two kids. I just want to say a big shout-out to the City of Prospect, Prospect and Blair Athol Lions Club for providing the barbecue, and Gary's famous pancakes. It really was a beautiful morning.

A few days later, I was at Pulteney school. Their year 9 students every year undertake what is called a 'City Week', which looks at ideas from their young people around how we can make our city a better place. It was an absolute privilege to be the keynote speaker and talk about the passion I have for our city and around delivering projects that really do connect the community.

We have also had a bumper week in the parliament last week with visitors. I understand there were more than 1,000 people who visited our Parliament House, which is absolutely wonderful. It was my honour, of those 1,000, to have almost 200 from my local community undertake tours with me. We had the Rosary School year 5s, who were such an engaged group of kids. They asked so many questions. We had two big groups of year 9s from Botanic High. I also invited in community members who were celebrating a milestone birthday. I say to them, as always, happy 21st. I hope you had a beautiful birthday and then an opportunity to come in and learn more about our beautiful parliament and get to know other members of the community.

I was also privileged last week to undertake a tour of the Marino Fine Foods factory on the outskirts of Prospect. This is an incredible small family business. Ricardo does an amazing job. They have award-winning hams and salamis. I was very excited by his hanging Santa salami. If you are looking for a Christmas gift for the meat lover in your family, I would definitely recommend maybe getting a Santa salami—or 'Santalami' as I have called it—to hang on the Christmas tree and enjoy over the very busy festive period.

As we all know as members of parliament, it is graduation season, and it has been a real joy getting to go around to the various schools for their graduations. I have so far had the privilege of attending graduations at Adelaide High School, Christian Brothers College and Blackfriars. It is wonderful to see our young leaders coming through, finishing their education and going on to very exciting things.

Just yesterday I was able to attend the final assembly of St Dominic's to present my Lucy Hood Community Kindness Award and I want to congratulate Amelia Peacock. She is a student who always has a smile on her face and is always willing to welcome other students into the school and make it a really beautiful, positive, community-minded and friendly school. Congratulations, Amelia, and all the best for your next stage of schooling.

On Monday evening, I had the privilege of going along to be the keynote speaker for the Adelaide Rotaract Club at the Caledonian, which was lovely. We got to attend a local pub and support a small business, while also getting to engage with young Rotaract members in my community. Thank you to Steph, the president at Adelaide Rotaract, for allowing me to come along. It was really an opportunity to provide an update on all the projects that are happening in my community, whether it is upgrading the Adelaide Aquatic Centre, creating pocket parks, investing in our main streets or really just investing in those community projects that bring people together and create community hubs.

We have a few big Christmas events coming up, which I cannot wait for. On Friday night, we have our Prospect Blair Athol Lions Carols in the Park, which will be a beautiful celebration. I cannot wait to go along there with my kids. On Saturday night, we have the City Lions of Adelaide Christmas Spirit and cake decorating competition. I will be there with bells on. Also on the Sunday, we have our Christmas in Prospect Community Fair. As always, I will be jumping on Red, my red Vespa, and welcoming Santa into our community. It is going to be a beautiful community celebration and I hope to see you there.

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