Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday, my community found out that the government will be selling Woodside Barracks—145 hectares, much of it environmental land that has never been cultivated. It's very important environmental land. Next year we were supposed to celebrate our 100th anniversary of our barracks. The barracks hold enormous historical significance to our community. We have 150 cadets there. We used to have a regiment, but the government moved the air regiment down to Edinburgh.

The great concern in my community is that this 145 hectares will be carved up for housing. What we need to hear from the state Labor government and from the Liberal opposition is that they agree with my community that this land should not be turned into 400—or perhaps even fewer—blocks. That would potentially be a population of 10,000 in a high-risk bushfire area. We also need mayoral candidates. We currently have a state election, but we also have a mayoral election in the Adelaide Hills. Every single one of those mayoral candidates should come out and tell the community where they stand on this. This must be preserved for future generations—it's open space; it's community space—and not turned into housing.

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