Tuesday, 1 April 2025

South-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:57): (1497) My question is to the Minister for Education, and I ask the minister: what is happening with the promised funding allocation for the Cranbourne Secondary College school upgrade, and when will the project commence? In the 2024–25 state budget the Labor government allocated $9 million in funding to deliver the promised capital upgrade at Cranbourne Secondary College, and yet nine months later this project remains in the tender preparation stage, meaning no works have commenced or even gotten to the stage of a builder being appointed, along with 23 other schools in a similar position around Victoria. With Labor’s debt expected to reach $187.3 billion by mid-2028 and Victorians paying an estimated $1 million every minute in interest in this state, the question mark on whether this desperately needed upgrade will ever be delivered by the November 2026 promised timeframe remains.