Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Preston electorate

Nathan LAMBERT (Preston) (14:49): (415) My constituency question is for the Minister for Education, and my question is: can his department provide a list of major school capital projects funded by this government in the Darebin LGA since 2014? Speaker, as you know, this Labor government has invested over $14.9 billion in our schools, including many in the Preston and Reservoir area. On the weekend I was down at Newlands Primary at their Fete de la Primavera. They are a wonderful Spanish bilingual school, and I would like to congratulate school council president Adam Palmer and principal Ross Dudgeon on a great event and also on their input and advocacy for their school upgrade over a long period of time. I would also like to thank some other principals with whom we have had recent discussions about their facilities, including Katie Watmough at Reservoir High, Sean Butler at Preston High, Helen Miller at Reservoir Primary, Raffaela Galati-Brown at Northern College of the Arts and Technology, Guy Cassarchis at East Preston Islamic College, Caroline and Derryn at Holy Name Primary, Maria Barnes at St Joseph the Worker and Gemma, Laura and Jarryd at St Gabriel’s and St Stephen’s. We look forward to working with all of them on a better education for our kids.