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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Private Members' Statements

Private Members' Statements

Mr PATTERSON (Morphett) (15:40): I take this opportunity in parliament to speak about some Australia Day award recipients who were recognised for their outstanding contributions to their community. This year saw Amin Ayoubi, the president of the West Torrens Birkalla Soccer Club, recognised with a community service award by the City of West Torrens for his significant voluntary work in our community.

Amin became the president of Birks in 2013 and since then has worked tirelessly at the club. The club is located at Jack Smith Park in Novar Gardens and has a fantastic junior program that provides a pipeline of talent, not only to the senior men's team but also to the A-League. In 2020, Amin formulated the girls' and ladies' teams, which has added to the club's culture. The 2024 season saw Amin and the team's hard work pay off, with both the men's senior and reserves teams finishing top of the ladder to secure their respective league championship. The club was also promoted into the National Premier Leagues for the upcoming 2025 season.

I would also like to congratulate Glenelg Football Club captain, Liam McBean, for being a recipient of the City of Holdfast Bay's Young Citizen of the Year award. Liam capped off a fantastic 2024 season by winning the Jack Oatey Medal and becoming a premiership captain of the Tigers after their premiership win in the epic SANFL grand final. Congratulations to Amin Ayoubi and Liam McBean.

Ms THOMPSON (Davenport) (15:42): The Malinauskas government just this week announced that we are cracking down on copper theft and my community could not be more pleased. Just recently, thieves stripped $100,000 worth of copper from the power box at the O'Halloran Hill Early Learning Centre, leaving them without electricity and forcing them to rely only on a generator since Christmas. This is not just an inconvenience, it is a serious crime that hurts small businesses, families and entire communities.

I have spoken with Jillian and Michael who run the centre and they are more than frustrated. They work hard to provide a safe and nurturing space for local children, yet they have been left picking up the pieces after a senseless act of theft. That is why I am also very proud to have secured funding to help them install a new security system, giving them, their staff and the families that they support much needed peace of mind.

We know that tackling copper theft is not just about helping the victims recover, it is about stopping it before it happens and that is why this government is taking action. We are strengthening laws around scrap metal sales to make it harder for stolen copper to be traded for cash and ensuring that businesses, home owners and builders have much better protections. I am so glad that this government is taking this issue seriously. Together, we are cracking down on copper theft and protecting our communities.

Ms PRATT (Frome) (15:43): No doubt about it, when there is good news to celebrate, the areas of Mid North, Clare Valley, Goyder and Light region know how to celebrate their own. With the council-led Australia Day ceremonies just recently it was an opportunity to celebrate individuals by giving them that level of recognition here. Of course in the Clare Valley region the event of the year was the RFDS ball where we danced the night away on the tarmac, and credit to those organisers. Justin Brady, Isaac Nichols and Leonie Moore were also recognised.

In the Wakefield council it was Graham Duncan and Ben Mann, and the reunion of the Blyth/Snowtown Football Club premierships where, in 1974, my dad played, in 1984 Norwood also won, and the reunion was quite a laugh in the old institute.

The Light Regional Council was the event that I attended this year and it was fantastic to see people like Ches Geue, Jake and Kathleen Noack, Tali Pipe and the Wasleys Primary School celebrating its 150th anniversary and the Kapunda Quilters all being recognised.

In the Goyder council area we saw Peter Bonner, Alex McDonald, Sandra Snook, Abbey Snook, Kymm Apostolides, Robert Perry, Wendy Schmidt, Todd Mosey, Manfred Lang and Sharon Tremaine recognised as well as the Eudunda Show and the Burra Market, not forgetting the Saints Fat Farmers 'Bluff to Pub Fun Run' event of the year as well.

For the Adelaide Plains Council it was Anne and Robert Arbon, Kai-Leigh Wilson, the Plains Community Group, the Two Wells Christmas Parade, the Mallala and Districts Lions Club Community Complex and Jake Slade from the northern areas.

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light) (15:45): As a lover of history both from local to world, I tend to gravitate to local historical and heritage societies and groups across the community in addition to the ones that are in my own community. I have recently been in contact with the Dublin History Group and I met Andrea and Pat there. I have been in touch with the Clare Regional History Group and I met Gerald Lally there who is not only involved in history but is an author in his own right. I also met Wendy and David Spackman from the Mt Horrocks Historical Society. I look forward to meeting quite a few others.

The importance of these historical and heritage groups is that they actually record, preserve, publish, educate and inform our communities about our social and cultural history. I think that sometimes we do not actually appreciate and value the work they do perform. They spend endless hours collecting information, collecting books, sometimes publishing works, collecting artefacts, etc., which they then very carefully record, store and preserve. Importantly, they then go on to educate our communities about that history.

I think it is important because if we do not have groups like this we start to lose our connection to our history. The social and cultural history of any community, no matter where it is, in our state or across the world, is very important. It is from this history that we fully understand where our community is at today.

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