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Web Member for Morialta, Staff (Grievance Debate) - 29/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (15:29): I wish to take this opportunity to thank the staff who have helped me throughout my time as the member for Morialta and recognise their efforts and achievements. Our electorate office opened after the March 2010 election, with Lyn Byrne and Reuben Bolaffi helping me get set-up, but they had jobs to go to... -
Web Private Members' Statements (Private Members' Statements) - 29/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (15:42): I earlier offered my gratitude to all of the staff who have served during my 16 years in the parliament. I now particularly wish to express my thanks to my current team, who continue to serve our community. I hope they know how much I value them. I brought them in here for dinner last sitting week and it... -
Web Education and Children's Services (Enrolment and Attendance) Amendment Bill (Bills) - 28/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (15:56): I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this bill and indicate that I am the lead speaker on behalf of the opposition. I thank the member for Flinders, my colleague, who spoke first earlier while I was actually with some Modbury High School students in support of their graduation and their outst... -
Web Shadow Ministry (Grievance Debate) - 28/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (15:29): Ahead of my retirement from politics in a few months, I have been reflecting on some of the things I have learnt and observed over 16 years by way of giving advice to colleagues and candidates who will be here in the years ahead. As David Pisoni will say from time to time, 'Everyone is entitled to my opi... -
Web Education and Children's Services (Enrolment and Attendance) Amendment Bill (Bills) - 28/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (17:36): It is with great pleasure that I resume my remarks on the Education and Children's Services (Enrolment and Attendance) Amendment Bill. As I described before, this is a bill that deals with that most important issue of how do we best serve the children in our community by ensuring that our systems, our st... -
Web TAFE SA Bill (Bills) - 15/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER: We would like to take our full 15 minutes times three on every single clause, if we may. The ACTING CHAIR (Mr Odenwalder): I am in your hands, member for Morialta. The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER: Minister, thank you for taking some general questions on clause 1, which may save us some time later. As you are aware, the oppositio... -
Web Sir Eric James Neal AC CVO (Condolence) - 14/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (14:33): I offer a few reflections of my own but also those of my wife, Trudi-Ann Mercurio, who very much appreciated the modest engagements that she, too, had with Sir Eric, and former premiers Marshall and Brown, so I will move through my own reflections as quickly as I can. Sir Eric Neal, as the Chancellor of ... -
Web Morialta Electorate (Grievance Debate) - 14/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (16:14): Service in parliament involves many roles, but if you are doing it right the central priority is serving your community. We are in a unique position to identify gaps left by generic government programs. We are the people to whom local residents, community groups and local government alike come for assist... -
Web TAFE SA Bill (Bills) - 14/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (12:16): I indicate I am the lead speaker on behalf of the opposition—perhaps for the last time—on this bill today, as the Hon. Dennis Hood is our shadow minister for training in the other house. I am very grateful to Dennis for the work he has done to understand this bill, its intentions and its motivations, to ... -
Web TAFE SA Bill (Bills) - 14/10/2025
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta) (16:42): It is a privilege to continue my remarks from earlier in relation to the TAFE SA Bill. Members may remember that I had, prior to the lunchbreak, identified that the Liberal Party would be supporting the bill and that we considered that the bill was an improvement on the status quo. I expressed my own per...
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