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Connect - 4 December 2020
Message from the Chief Executive
With the official start to the bushfire fire season, we are preparing to play our role in prevention and emergency response. Thank you to all of the other agencies who also work to prepare and respond to bushfires each year.
If you have any comments, suggestions, questions or concerns, please email them to telltony@sa.gov.au.
Keeping COVID SAfe with new feature
This week a new COVID-SAfe Check-In feature has been added to the free mySA GOV app.
If someone in SA tests positive to COVID-19, the check-in enables SA Health to quickly trace and contact others who may have been exposed to the virus.
If you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to download the mySA GOV app on your smart phone. When you arrive at a venue or business, select the COVID SAfe Check-In tile and follow the prompts to scan their unique QR code and ‘check-in’ at the location.
Turning concrete pillars into art
South Australian artists have been busy turning concrete pillars at our Darlington and Flinders Link projects into murals to create a vibrant precinct.
The theme, "Looking to the Future", is focused on the Flinders and Tonsley precincts and the research and technology undertaken, as well as celebrating the local environment.
Well done to everyone involved with this!
White Ribbon Survey
Thank you to everyone who has completed the short, five-minute White Ribbon survey so far.
This survey forms part of our efforts towards achieving reaccreditation as a White Ribbon workplace and will inform our actions to further embed a culture of respect, equality and gender diversity in our workplace. This three-yearly reaccreditation reinforces the wider State Government commitment to addressing and preventing domestic and family violence.
I encourage everyone who received the survey to complete it as soon as possible.
Going the extra mile
Our Road Access Unit continues to do a great job in helping people through what can be challenging and complex issues.
We recently received some great feedback from a transport company that was helped through the need to move an oversize load with urgent consent required.
The note thanked those involved for their "awesome efforts" in assessing the applications. "You and the team have made this process so much easier by your willingness to advise and show support," the note said.
This is a great result and I thank those involved for their customer focus and commitment.
Bringing the butterflies in
The environment got a boost recently, with students from Charles Campbell College planting 60 butterfly-attracting plants in their school garden.
The activity was made possible by the Paradise Park ‘n’ Ride Community Wildlife Project, which provided educational opportunities for local schools and community groups, residents and Paradise Interchange users via school workshops, community Wildlife Packs and resources on how to enhance the health of their local ecosystems.
The planting allowed the students to put into practice the lessons they’d learned at a Community Wildlife Project workshop about the role butterflies play in our eco-system as pollinators.
This kind of interaction is a great example of being closely connected to local communities through our projects.
Students at the planting day
Recognising climate leaders
The SA Climate Leaders Awards are shining a light on action being taken to address climate change in South Australia and build our reputation as a climate-smart state.
An initiative of the Premier’s Climate Change Council, the awards showcase the innovative work happening across South Australia to grow the sustainability and resilience of our state through responding and adapting to climate change.
Nominations are invited from community, business and industry, and government – with $10,000 awarded to one overall winner. With our diverse range of projects and partners, this is a great opportunity to highlight the work we are doing.
Projects can be big or small and the entry process is simple. Entries close at close of business on Friday 18 December 2020.
Friday Flashback
Today’s Friday Flashback is a reminder of Australia’s history of battling bushfires. The photo from a newspaper archive shows a couple with children escaping a bushfire at Kangarilla in 1954.
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