Thursday, 24 February 2022

Somers Primary School

Mr BURGESS (Hastings) (09:55): Premier, when you were first elected you promised Victoria that you would govern for all Victorians. What happened? My community is a part of Victoria, but you do not seem to get that. Ever since you were first elected and made that promise you have systematically ignored my community, and it is time that you started keeping your promises and providing the resources that the Hastings electorate needs to overcome your mismanagement, your lockdowns and your broken promises.

Last Friday the Victorian Liberal leader, the member for Bulleen, and the Liberal candidate for Hastings, Briony Hutton, announced a Liberal-Nationals Victorian government would provide $3.2 million to upgrade Somers Primary School as part of our plan to recover and rebuild part of the promises that this current Premier should have been satisfying. Somers is now home to many young families, with more moving into the community as permanent residents since the ongoing lockdown restrictions in Melbourne. The existing administration building is a 20-year-old portable that no longer meets the needs of the school. Somers Primary School has been constantly overlooked by Labor, and only a Liberal-Nationals government will deliver the upgrades it needs and deserves. There are so many broken promises that this Labor government have left in limbo.