27 November, 2025
The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (12:26): I thank members for their support of this motion. As I indicated previously, this is a significant issue for the community in the Adelaide Hills and in particular the community in Heysen. I want to acknowledge the work of community campaigner Anne Fordham in particular, who has been working very hard. She gathered 10,000 signatures in relation to this.
I also want to acknowledge the work of the Greens candidate for Heysen, Genevieve Dawson-Scott, who has really been championing this issue. She raised it with me on multiple occasions and pushed to really make this a focus for the parliament. Should the upper house back this referral to the Environment, Resources and Development Committee, I think that will really be testament to the advocacy skills of Genevieve, because she has been pushing this hard. I thank her for that.
This is an opportunity to really examine what has gone on here and to look at what alternatives there are, because it is clear that this approach is causing some really terrible outcomes for people who live along that road and also some terrible outcomes for our environment as well and impact on the local habitat. I thank members for their support for this referral.
Amendment carried; motion as amended carried.