Truganina Community Centre
Sarah CONNOLLY (Laverton) (17:23): (694) My adjournment is for the Minister for Children in the other place, and the action I seek is that the minister join me in mighty Truganina to open the brand new Truganina Community Centre. As the minister knows, community centres are a vital piece of local service infrastructure and something that our government can be very proud of having helped bring on line in new areas in my community of Wyndham. Since being elected to this place in 2018 I have had the immense opportunity to open so many new community centres and local facilities, often funded through our government’s Growing Suburbs Fund under the suburbs portfolio. This community centre, however, was fortunate enough to receive a total of $3.15 million from our government through the early childhood portfolio’s Building Blocks grant, because we know that community centres like this one provide great spaces for kinder and maternal child health services to support our young kids. This was on top of $4 million from the Growing Suburbs Fund – such a great fund – in 2021 and a $1.5 million grant from the Living Libraries infrastructure program.
Once completed, this community centre will have three kindergarten rooms and will provide 99 kinder spaces for children in our local community, along with maternal health and other allied services. With all of this funding I think it is pretty fair to say that this community centre will have it all. This facility is set to open in a couple of weeks, and it would be a great opportunity to welcome the minister back to Trug to see how our government is providing local facilities in growth suburbs and building the Education State for all ages.