3 April 2025

This Bill is part of a broader, coordinated effort to prepare South Australia for the future. By ensuring our planning system is responsive, our housing supply is sustainable, our heritage is preserved, and our infrastructure is strategically developed, we are protecting what makes our communities unique while ensuring they remain vibrant and liveable for generations to come.  

2 April 2025

ANZAC Day is not just a date in history: it is a living commemoration of the values that define us as Australians. It is time to renew our collective pledge: to honour the past, to care for our veterans, and to strive for peace in the future. In supporting this motion, I hope we reaffirm our commitment to remembrance, gratitude, and the ongoing care of those who have served. Lest we forget.

20 March 2025

The committee has put forward a number of recommendations to improve the way we diagnose, treat and manage endometriosis in South Australia. We need to tackle the long delays in diagnosis. We need to support the professionals already providing dedicated and effective multidisciplinary care, where general practitioners work alongside specialists, nurses and allied health professionals. We need to ensure we provide the framework that enables the sorely needed additional dedicated multidisciplinary endometriosis clinics, particularly in public hospitals.

6 March 2025

One of the most important aspects of this legislation is the mandatory public consultation period. Every South Australian deserves a voice in decisions that affect our shared heritage. This is not just about procedure. It is about recognising that our heritage belongs to all of us. Public consultation has already proved invaluable in other heritage matters, such as the provisional entry of places into the Heritage Register. It often brings to light historical information, community connections and cultural values that might otherwise have been overlooked.

18 February 2025

The reforms before us today are not just about updating regulations, they are about ensuring every South Australian has access to reliable, safe and efficient transport services. They are about supporting an industry through necessary change while protecting the interests of vulnerable consumers. I commend this bill to the house.

18 February 2025

This legislation sends a clear message: we value the independence and integrity of our anti-corruption commission. By ensuring appropriate remuneration and security for those who take on this crucial role, we strengthen the commission's ability to serve the people of South Australia without fear or favour. The appointment of Commissioner Townsend marks a new chapter in South Australia's fight against corruption. This bill ensures she and all future commissioners can fulfil their duties with the same independence and security as their predecessors.

5 February 2025

The final stage will be this year when as of 1 September 2025, plastic fruit stickers, plastic soy sauce fish and prepackaged and attached products such as products that contain plastic straws or cutlery will be phased out. I have to say I personally will be thrilled when an alternative is found to those little fruit and veg stickers which I am a bit obsessed with picking off fruit and veg as soon as I buy it. Of course, in undertaking this exercise in bringing our use of single-use plastics into the modern age, extensive consultation was carried out, including with specific stakeholders expected to be directly impacted by the amendment regulations and the South Australian public with the overwhelming number of respondents expressing their strong support, including that of business owners.

13 November 2024

Cibo represents a fantastic South Australian small business success story, and it is iconic to our state’s multiculturalism, and the outstanding success of our Italian community. It represents passion and community. 

13 November 2024

On Remembrance Day, we remember all the brave men and women who, many years ago and still today, have stood up to protect our country and the people we love. These are soldiers, sailors, aviators, nurses, and other helpers who worked hard and, sometimes, gave their lives to keep us safe and free. 

12 November 2024

My electorate has many excellent schools, both public and private such as East Adelaide, Norwood Primary, and Trinity Gardens Schools, Prince Alfred College and St Peters College, and just outside my electorate, but for which the catchment is largely in my electorate, the outstanding Marryatville High School. Teachers are the often the unsung heroes who inspire enthusiasm and curiosity, foster creativity, and instil a love of learning that can last a lifetime. Teachers are essential in ensuring that every child is given the best possible chance to fulfill their dreams and aspirations.  

29 October 2024

As a parent myself and probably just like any other member of society, frankly, we are all devastated whenever we hear of the neglect or harm inflicted on a child by people who are supposed to provide a loving and safe environment for their child to grow and thrive. This Bill has been designed to create a legislative foundation and framework for profound and significant change. Change that ensures that the child protection system has at its core a focus on the safety and support of the child, while of course retaining that which is working well. 

16 October 2024

Now as someone who has owned dogs all my life, both as pets and working dogs on my farm, I can’t fathom the need, let alone the want, to treat dogs in this way. Dogs by their very nature want to please their owners, and will do their best to do what they think it is, you want them to do. Mr Speaker, in my mind, it is always a blight on an industry that involves animals, that they require a game keeper, or an overseer, to ensure they behave in an ethical and humane manner, but here we are. This Bill establishes a Greyhound Industry Reform Inspector to oversee the implementation of the recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into the Governance of the Greyhound Racing Industry. 

26 September 2024

I honour the Veterans who deployed as part of INTERFET and all our Veterans and current Defence members and I thank them for their service.  

26 September 2024

Being a mother of four children, I feel well placed to speak to the extraordinary importance of early childhood education. Anyone who has experienced a toddler knows that learning to regulate their emotions and to interact with their peers in an appropriate way are crucial to their learning experience. This Bill provides the legislative mandate for the Office to provide statewide, strategic oversight and direction of the early childhood system, and to collaborate and engage with the many organisations and people who intersect in the early years of a child’s life. 

11 September 2024

The Parish is strong and unified. I feel blessed to know those who I know already, and excited to meet those I’ve not yet met. Long may Prophet Elias Norwood continue to be a place of worship, fellowship, and charity for generations to come. 

11 September 2024

This is an initiative that has made a real difference to families like mine, who for so long were calling for support for our neurodivergent children, and now, because of this excellent initiative, we have the support and the understanding our families, and more importantly, our children need. 

4 June 2924

Mr Belperio is a highly regarded and active member of the Italian community and it will come as no surprise to those who know him that this honour recognises his service to the Italian community.