• Say you strongly oppose the project because it would put a large resort and more than 1,000 people on a very high bushfire‑risk hillside with a single, compromised escape route.
• Endorse the “Preserve and Protect Barossa – SBWTAP EIS Submission” and its bushfire concerns, and include a link or attach the PDF.
• Ask the Premier and Minister for Planning to refuse planning approval for SBWTAP on bushfire‑safety grounds, and to fully consider the expert bushfire evidence raised in community submissions.

You don’t have to start from scratch. We’ve provided an example email you can use as a guide – you are welcome to adapt the wording to reflect your own views and experiences about the bushfire risk in the Southern Barossa.

The most important action is to send an email using the example below to Peter Malinauskas, Premier of South Australia; Nick Champion, Minister for Planning; and David Reynolds, CEO, Department for Housing and Urban Development.

You can also sign the petition.

To:	premier@sa.gov.au; MinisterChampion@sa.gov.au; David.Reynolds@sa.gov.au
Subject:	Very high bushfire risk - Southern Barossa Winery and Tourist Accommodation Project (SBWTAP)

Dear Premier, Minister of Planning and CEO of DHUD,

I strongly oppose the Southern Barossa Winery and Tourist Accommodation Project (SBWTAP) because it puts a large resort in a very high bushfire‑risk location with a single, compromised emergency exit.

As an interested person who values the Barossa’s landscape, communities and wine industry, I endorse the “Preserve and Protect Barossa – SBWTAP Bushfire Risk Briefing” and share its concerns about putting a six‑storey resort, nearly one and a half times the length of Adelaida oval, with more than 1,000 people, on very high bushfire‑risk land, with a single evacuation route and limited firefighting capacity. (See https://PreserveAndProtectBarossa.org/SBWTAP Bushfire Risk Briefing.pdf)

The recent Deep Creek fire, which burned thousands of hectares in steep, hard‑to‑access terrain and required hundreds of firefighters and aircraft over many days, shows how quickly fires can escalate and how difficult they are to control in rugged country. Concentrating a large resort in a similarly exposed, high‑risk landscape is not a theoretical concern but a real, foreseeable danger.

A major fire at the proposed site would endanger Barossa communities, threaten people, homes and businesses and put heavy strain on local services. It would also expose CFS volunteers and other emergency responders to unnecessary danger at a large, complex resort instead of allowing them to focus on protecting townships and farms.

Such a fire could blanket the Barossa and Adelaide Hills in smoke, causing smoke taint to vineyards, with serious financial losses for growers and wineries and long‑term damage to the region' reputation and brand in domestic and export markets.

I am also concerned that public submissions on SBWTAP have been provided to the proponent (the property developer) but are not available to the wider community.

For a development of this scale and risk, the assessment process should be transparent, with community evidence visible to everyone when available, not just to developers.

For these reasons, I respectfully ask you to refuse planning approval for SBWTAP, and to immediately make all public submissions on this proposal available so the community, not just the proponent, can see the full range of evidence and concerns that have been raised.

You can also add your name to the petition: "Preserve & Protect Barossa – say NO to the Southern Barossa Tourist Accommodation Project"

The petition helps demonstrate broad concern, especially to the media and decision-makers, but it does not replace an individual email. Your own email remains the most crucial action.