Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

2019-20 is seen now as the Black Summer fires. The majority of the fires—the worst, of course—were centred in New South Wales, but we had our problems in South Australia as well. The largest fire was at Kangaroo Island. It burnt about 211,000 hectares and 56 houses. I actually went over there for a couple of days to give a mate a bit of a hand cleaning up. On Yorke Peninsula, too, we lost 5,000 hectares on 20 November in 2019, and 16 properties were damaged.

As a result of the fires, the Edithburgh Sports and Community Club applied for the Morrison Black Summer grant and secured $1.81 million to convert their oval into an emergency management centre. On the weekend, I was privileged to give a hand in opening up their new toilets and change rooms, male and female—the first time we've seen female change rooms at that oval. It will, of course, double as football and netball change rooms as well. There are lights on the oval. Well done to Terry Austin and his team. I'll just point out that they had a pony pooping contest towards the end, where they fenced off a bit of the oval and divided it up into squares, and then the prize went to the one who picked the right square. I'm not sure what the prize was. Perhaps it was—

Sharon Claydon (Newcastle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Member for Aston.