Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Brown Hill Creek is a particularly beautiful part of Boothby. It runs through the foothills and out across the Adelaide Plains. If you visited now, you'd see a very small trickle of water, but that creek is the sixth most likely catchment to flood in all of the country. In a one-in-100-years flood it would take out parts of the CBD, Ashford Hospital, Adelaide Airport and the interstate train lines, as well as many homes. Brown Hill Keswick Creek Stormwater Management Authority is working towards flood mitigation along the entire catchment. I'm very pleased that the Albanese government has provided $5 million to progress the next pieces of work.

I was recently at Brown Hill Creek for the opening of the last tranche of works. This replaced woody weeds with bank-stabilising native plants and shored up the bank around a very significant tree. This tree is estimated to be over 450 years old and is known locally as the Kaurna shelter tree. It was wonderful to see Kaurna elders, including Aunty Lynette Crocker; Allan Sumner, the CEO of Kaurna Yerta Corporation; artist Brad Darkson; and Aunty Elaine Magias; as well as students from Urrbrae Agricultural High School, Mitcham Primary School, Scotch College, Mercedes College, Mitcham Girls High School and St Joseph's Primary School, who all pitched in to achieve the works.

This is a really special place in Boothby. It's a place where many of our community go. It's a place where the Kaurna people have been for many years. It's lovely to see it being restored so well.