Tuesday, 31 October 2023

Essendon electorate schools

Danny PEARSON (Essendon – Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop, Assistant Treasurer, Minister for WorkSafe and the TAC) (13:31): I rise to give a shout-out to all the year 12 students at Strathmore Secondary College, Lowther Hall, St Columba’s and Mount Alexander College, who are working tirelessly as we speak, working their way through their year 12 exams. I want to particularly give a shout-out to Mount Alexander College, which is incredibly well led by Dani Angelico. Mount Alexander College had a year 7 cohort intake of 27 students in 2015, and the school is going gangbusters thanks to a $26 million investment by the Andrews–Allan Labor government. Why this is important is that this school services the Flemington public housing estate. I spoke with the architect, and the architect wanted to make sure that there was a multilevel building and that the year 12 floor was at the top level so students could gaze out over the city and aspire to work in the city and have a job. It is about making sure that children from a wide range of backgrounds can get to learn together and have a quality education at Mount Alexander College. This builds on the investment the government is making when it comes to the Flemington community hub, when it comes to employment programs. We have got new public housing that is being built down at Flemington, opposed by the Greens political party. We are going to rebuild the towers – again, opposed by the Greens political party, these frauds, cons, charlatans. They are a disgrace. They cannot be trusted when it comes to doing what is right, what is fair and what is in the interests of public housing tenants in the state of Victoria.