Congratulations to the winners of this year's Gibson Christmas Card Competition!

As I do every year, I ran this competition in local primary schools and received an overwhelming number of illustrations on the theme "My Colourful Christmas".

Thank you to all those who attended my Seniors’ Forum about "Stroke Awareness and Prevention" last Friday afternoon.

While this year wasn't our usual set-up of over 100 guests and a lovely afternoon tea, we worked around COVID-19 restrictions so that our seniors could still enjoy our annual community forum.

Did you know that stroke is one of Australia’s biggest killers and a leading cause of disability? However, more than 80% of strokes can be prevented.

Congratulations to Seaview High School's Year 12 students who tonight celebrated their graduation.

Seaview students were thoroughly deserving of this moment to celebrate their fantastic achievements and the start of the next chapter of their lives.

2020 has certainly been a year we will never forget.

When I'm at community events, phone canvassing, door knocking or speaking with residents at my "Coffee with Corey" catch-ups, many of you have taken the time to share with me how your family or small business has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, creating the greatest health and economic challenge of our time.

With your feedback, personal stories and suggestions on how we can better improve our community, I appreciate how important it is we create jobs, invest in infrastructure, improve public transport and provide health services closer to home.

We have thrown everything at this virus. To save lives and livelihoods, to save jobs and businesses, and to cement South Australia as the safest state in the safest nation.

As part of the State Government's record $1.3 billion capital works program, $51.5 million is being invested into our community.

The schools receiving funding in our area include Brighton Secondary School, Seaview High School, Hamilton Secondary College, Brighton Primary School and Warradale Primary School.

A massive happy birthday to Warradale Primary School which this year turns 60!

The school's birthday committee put on a fantastic celebration today that included an art exhibition, live music and birthday cake.

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, I visited the North Brighton Community Garden for its Spring Open Day.

This wonderful community garden was the result of years of planning that led to securing a location at Bowker Oval in 2019.

Despite the chilly weather, many people from our local community turned up to donate to a local food drive today.

Marion City Lions and MarionLIFE had organised this drive together to combat hunger.

It was beautiful weather this Saturday morning at Hamilton Park Reserve, Warradale, as we celebrated recent upgrades to the reserve by the State Government and Marion Council. 

Strong communities have good public amenities and, as part of the upgrade, the State Government contributed $180,000 to fund fantastic new automatic toilet facilities. 

Today, the Member for Black, David Speirs, the Member for Morphett, Stephen Patterson, and I were treated to a tour of Brighton Secondary school by Principal Tony Lunnis.

We saw sections of the school where part of a $13.84m upgrade is underway to construct a new two story-building with general and specialised learning areas, as part of the State Government’s Building Better Schools program.