Warradale Post Office

Tuesday 17 June 2025

S.E. ANDREWS (Gibson) (15:39): I rise to say how happy I am that our community campaign to bring back Australia Post to the centre of our community has proven successful. Approximately two years ago, Australia Post closed the very popular office in Oaklands Park, at Marion shopping centre, an office that quite often had queues out the door. It was remarkable that they shut it down and, of course, the community were rightly outraged. I ran a petition online, but also stood outside the post office day after day to speak to community members to hear directly from them what their concerns were about their inability to access a public service. We continued that fight.

I would like to acknowledge the member for Boothby, Louise Miller-Frost. We held a street-corner meeting together with the community about it as well, and I am so pleased to say that it just represents that when a community comes together and fights, and has an advocate in their corner, you really can make positive change. In only a couple of weeks, a new office for Australia Post is opening in Warradale not far at all from where the last one closed down. A few of us in the community got together on Saturday to stand outside the new office and check it out, and to celebrate and eat cake.