Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Gladstone Park Secondary College

Josh BULL (Sunbury) (19:03): (762) My adjournment matter this evening is for the outstanding Minister for Education, who is also the Deputy Premier. The action I seek is for the minister to join me in visiting Gladstone Park Secondary College in my electorate. Gladstone Park Secondary is an outstanding local school and one that I have had the opportunity to visit a number of times, very well guided of course by principal Veronica Hoy and the entire team: the school council, teaching staff and the broader school community. For these reasons I was absolutely delighted that the last budget contained more than $11 million to upgrade and modernise this outstanding local school. It is a commitment that builds on strong investment within the southern part of my electorate. A number of schools have been upgraded by this Labor government – Tullamarine Primary School, Gladstone Park Primary School, Gladstone Views – and these are terrific schools that have benefited significantly from sound and sustained investment.

There is of course more work to do, and that is why I was particularly excited for the $11 million commitment in the last budget. I know that the minister knows this area very well, and the entire Labor team is committed to making sure this becomes an outstanding upgrade. Only Labor governments invest in education. Only Labor governments make sure our state is indeed the Education State. I look forward to the minister visiting very shortly.