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

Mrs HURN (Schubert) (15:26): There are a few topics that I would like to touch on for the purpose of my grieve today. Firstly, I have had the pleasure of hosting a number of school leaders in the parliament over the last couple of weeks. I hosted Nuriootpa High School school leaders here, and I would like to read out their names: I had Abbey Mattner, Oliver, Paige, another Oliver, Eliza and Makayla. I hosted them here in the parliament, and they had the great pleasure of seeing parliament in action, where in fact they saw an issue that they are really passionate about, and that was increasing transport options to the Barossa Valley.

They saw the debate of the Passenger Transport Act and bringing rideshare companies like Uber to the Barossa Valley and a whole host of other things. More than that, we had a fantastic conversation about the issues that they feel need to be addressed for young people and the next generation more broadly, things like the cost of living. That was front of mind for people from Nuriootpa High School, as well as transport options, wanting to see the Barossa hospital and also housing affordability.

Housing affordability was the biggest issue that was raised with me again last night when I hosted the school student leaders, or the senior leaders, of Faith Lutheran College here in the parliament with me. I had Desi, Ned, Mitchell, Bella, Jack and Grace join me, and they are really scared about housing affordability. This was the number one topic of conversation, as well as the impact on social media, which does occupy quite a bit of their time outside of school.

They are really grateful that the leaders at Faith Lutheran College made the decision to ban phones in schools this year. They said that almost instantly they noticed an uptick, a lift, in the atmosphere of the schoolyard, that they had more energy to put into conversations and just getting on with extracurricular activities themselves. So I was really delighted to host them, and I am looking forward to hosting school leaders from Birdwood High School as well over the next few months.

It is something that I like to do each and every year, just to tap into what the young kids are thinking. Certainly, I am always reminded that I am well and truly behind with the lingo of this next generation, like 'sigma' and 'rizz' and all those fancy words that I have no idea about. But thank you very much to those students for coming to join me here in the parliament and to all the other parliamentarians who had a chat with them along the way, including the Minister for Education, who stopped to have a chat with my students from Nuriootpa High School. That was greatly appreciated because of some of the challenges that they have been facing.

I would like to give a brief shout-out to all the winter sport that is starting in my community over the weekend. We have the local footy, netball and hockey. I am looking forward to getting out and supporting them. Everyone knows that the Angaston Panthers are my home team. My family has played there for six generations or thereabouts and so I am well and truly sticking with the blue and white colours, barracking for Angaston, but I wish every single club all the very best over the course of this winter.

I was not going to reflect on this, but in light of the comments that were made by the member for Black and the member for Newland, I would like to acknowledge all the work they have done with their stillborn committee. I think it has been really remarkable to see a light shone on that because for far too long it has been a bit of a taboo topic.

My mum actually had a stillborn baby between my brother, Shannon, and I and it is not something that we often spoke about in our family. Reflecting on the stories that the member for Newland has shared, and indeed the member for Black, I say power to them for shining a light on this and for having the courage to encourage others to say their name. My brother was Dylan Thomas. I think particularly for families in regional communities, having just had my little one, lots of people in the community ride the wave of your pregnancy with you and to come home without a baby would be one of the hardest things that people go through. Well done to those members of parliament and congratulations on all the work that they have done.

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