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

The Hon. B.I. BOYER (Wright—Minister for Education, Training and Skills, Minister for Police) (15:25): It is a pleasure to rise and provide an update to this place on the delivery of some local commitments in the seat of Wright. There are many I am pleased to have the opportunity to update members of this place about but also, of course, residents of the seat of Wright themselves.

I might start with an update on the opening of The Heights Technical College, one of five we are building across the state. We opened the technical college at Findon first, and we have since opened the technical college at Port Augusta. By the start of the 2026 school year we will open the three remaining technical colleges at Tonsley, Mount Gambier and in my own seat at The Heights.

The building is finished ahead of time, which is fantastic, so we had an opportunity to do something we did not have the opportunity to do with our first tech college, which was to show families through and give them an idea of how these technical colleges are different to the tech colleges they may remember from years gone past. The primary issue we have had so far is accommodating all the interested families, students and local community members who are keen to see how fantastic this building is.

I have spent a lot of time there myself. Before it was finished, we used that building to sign our Better and Fairer Schools Agreement with the federal education minister and the Premier. Once it was finished, the first meeting The Heights Technical College actually accommodated was an education ministers meeting. I was very proud to have education ministers—federal and from all states and territories—come to The Heights Technical College to see how great these are going to be. I am really confident that given the streams that are going to be accommodated there—including aero skills and building trades, to name a couple—it is going to provide some amazing job opportunities for young South Australians who live in the north-east for many years to come.

Wynn Vale Drive was another election commitment I made before the 2022 state election. I do not expect people in this place to be particularly familiar with the intersection of Wynn Vale Drive and Bridge Road, but people who live in the north-east will be all too familiar with how difficult it is to turn right from Wynn Vale Drive onto Bridge Road. In fact, it is so difficult that people avoid it, and those who do try often turn left and then do a U-turn across three lanes of traffic on Bridge Road or go for a rat run past local houses—and often past Gulfview Heights Primary School, where I think there have been some near misses with cars speeding past there.

I am very pleased that just this week we saw the first set of traffic lights erected there, which is great. It has been a big project because we are doing a number of things at the site, not just installing traffic lights but redesigning the whole intersection—indented bus bays, new kerbing, new stormwater, a whole range of different things. Being a local resident myself and using it quite regularly, I have seen a number of accidents occur there, and it was only a matter of time before one of those was a very serious or fatal accident, so I am pleased that this election commitment will be delivered on time and be completed very soon.

One that the member for King has touched upon in this place already is the election commitment to build a new ambulance station at Golden Grove. That is complete. It is open and operational, and the member for King and I have both been there to meet the crew. It is in a fantastic place, one of the last remaining bits of open land there in Golden Grove near the intersection of the Grove Way and the Golden Way. It is well-placed to be able to service the area and reduce waiting times.

It is also particularly well-placed in the sense that it is an older area in the north-east. A lot of people move to the Delfin development in their later years to retire, and there are a number of lifestyle villages, so having an ambulance service in close proximity is very important, and we have delivered on that as well.

On the Community Wastewater Management Scheme, I have been pleased to host some community forums with the member for Newland recently about progress on removing those septic tanks. I think there were more than 4,500 across the north-eastern suburbs. We are well underway there, and Surrey Downs in my own electorate is seeing work now to have those residents transferred onto a more modern wastewater system.

I will finish by mentioning the Wynn Vale Dam, the home of the best parkrun in South Australia, which is Jubilee Way, where I spend my Saturday mornings. We have seen upgraded paving and we have seen a brand-new playground for kids, and that is really important. It means people can use the beautiful surrounds all year around and it can accommodate those sometimes 300 runners on a Saturday morning as well.

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