Tuesday, 15 October 2024

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:58): (1135) My constituency question is for the Minister for Education, and in particular it relates to Mullauna College. I had the good fortune yesterday of being at Mullauna College. Unfortunately, some months ago – in fact four months ago now – part of the wall in the stadium collapsed. That was four months ago. Immediately the department did a make-safe fix, so now there is some fencing, some barricading, around both the outside and the inside of that stadium. Sadly, however, four months later there is still no sign of any permanent works to correct the wall itself, much less to investigate the structural damage, more importantly, to the rest of the facility. This has a flow-on effect not only for the school of course and the students who cannot use part of that stadium but also for Nunawading Basketball. Nunawading Basketball use that stadium for their own training, their own games and so forth. So my question to the minister is: please can you advise as soon as possible when that stadium will be fixed and when the wall will be repaired? We need it done before the new school year starts in 2025.