O'Halloran Hill is a suburb in the south of Adelaide, South Australia, situated on the hills south of the O'Halloran Hill Escarpment, which rises from the Adelaide Plains and located 18 km from the city centre via the Main South Road. The suburb is split between the Cities of Marion and Onkaparinga, and it neighbours Happy Valley, Hallett Cove, Trott Park and Darlington.
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Glenthorne National Park–Ityamaiitpinna Yarta is a South Australian national park in the southern Adelaide suburb of O'Halloran Hill, 16 km south of the city centre.
The park opened to the public in November 2020, and as of 2021 O'Halloran Hill Recreation Park is in the process of transitioning to become part of it. It includes the nearby Glenthorne Estate, and will connect with other parks and parcels of land in Adelaide's south to form the Glenthorne Precinct. These include Hallett Cove Conservation Park, Marino Conservation Park, areas of the Field River Valley and the Happy Valley Reservoir.
The Kaurna people are the traditional owners of the greater Adelaide region, including this area, and still maintain a deep relationship with Country, which they have done for tens of thousands of years through their customs and Tjukurpa. Tjukurpa, which includes cultural stories and lore, will profoundly influence the way the Glenthorne National Park-Ityamaiitpinna Yarta is managed.
The park includes important grey box grassy woodland, and more than 90 species of birds have been spotted within its boundaries, including:
Adelaide rosella - Platycercus elegans adelaidae
Grey fantail - Rhipidura albiscapa
Kookaburra - Dacelo novaeguineae
Willie wagtail - Rhipidura leucophrys
Yellow-tailed black cockatoo - Calyptorhynchus funereus
Yellow-faced honeyeater - Lichenostomus chrysops
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The Happy Valley Dam is an off-stream earth-filled embankment dam, located in Happy Valley, a southern suburb of Adelaide, in South Australia. Constructed in 1897, the resultant reservoir, the Happy Valley Reservoir was built to supply potable water to Adelaide when the total population of city was 315,200. In 2005, the reservoir supplied over half a million people, from Adelaide's southern extent to the city centre.
The dam and reservoir were added to the South Australian Heritage Register on 8 November 1984.
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Trott Park is a suburb in the south of Adelaide, South Australia. It has a population of 3,124 people.
It is surrounded in the most part by open space: the O'Halloran Hill Recreation Park, and Roseworthy Park, a former CSIRO landhold. It is also bordered by Sheidow Park, Hallett Cove and O'Halloran Hill. The Ityamaiitpinna Yarra, Southern Expressway, Sam Willoughby BMX track and the Hallett Cove soccer club are situated close to the suburb.
The Coast to Vines rail trail passes through the suburb.
Trott Park is in the City of Marion local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Black and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Kingston.
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Mitchell is a former electoral district of the House of Assembly in the state of South Australia. It was first created in the redistribution of 1969, taking effect at the 1970 election. Mitchell was replaced by Black at the 2018 election, resulting from the 2016 electoral redistribution.
Mitchell was named after philosopher Sir William Mitchell.
Mitchell was located in inner-south western Adelaide, and covered 26.8 square kilometres and encompassed the suburbs of Dover Gardens, Old Reynella, Reynella, Seacombe Gardens, Seacombe Heights, Seaview Downs, Sheidow Park, Sturt and Trott Park and parts of Darlington, O'Halloran Hill, Oaklands Park and Warradale. The suburbs contained within the seat in 2010 were completely different as recently as 1989. The 1989 seat centred on Park Holme, north-east of the current incarnation of Mitchell, where much of the seat of Elder is. The 1989 boundary bordered the 2010 boundary in the south-west and north-east respectively.
Mitchell tended to be a marginal Labor-held seat. While Colin Caudell succeeded in winning the seat for the Liberal Party for the first time at the 1993 election, he was narrowly defeated by Kris Hanna at the 1997 election. Hanna markedly increased his majority at the 2002 election, but defected to the SA Greens in 2003. He subsequently left the Greens in February 2006, and won his seat at the 2006 election narrowly as an independent candidate on a 50.6 two-candidate vote, though Labor got a 65.2 percent two-party vote against the Liberals. Hanna failed in his attempts to retain the seat at the 2010 election, losing to Labor candidate Alan Sibbons. Hanna unsuccessfully contested the seat at the 2014 election. Liberal Corey Wingard won the seat with a 51.2 percent two-party vote which made it the most marginal seat in parliament. It was the first time Labor was in government with the Liberals winning Mitchell.
At the 2018 state election, Wingard chose to contest the seat of Gibson, and was successful; and the seat of Black was won by David Speirs, the former member for Bright; both members of the Liberal Party.
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O'Halloran Hill Recreation Park is a protected area located about 16 kilometres south of the Adelaide city centre in the suburbs of Seaview Downs and O’Halloran Hill. As of December 2021 it is in the process of becoming part of the new Glenthorne National Park–Ityamaiitpinna Yarta.
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It includes a large area of former farmland and commercial vineyards known as the Glenthorne Estate, which in 2018 became the Glenthorne National Park–Ityamaiitpinna Yarta.