Thursday, 7 April 2022

Armstrong Creek schools

Mr CHEESEMAN (South Barwon) (09:50): The Armstrong Creek growth corridor is one of regional Australia’s fastest growing regions, with many thousands of new residents moving in over the last few years. One of these rapidly growing suburbs is the suburb of Charlemont. Charlemont is a beautiful community with many young families moving in. I certainly know as a young father with two young boys, Isaac and Noah, how important it is that we deliver the essential services for those families to be close to home. We need to prepare for future growth so that these young families have the opportunity to educate their kids close to home. I have had the opportunity over the last few years to deliver many new schools to the Armstrong Creek growth community, including of course Mirripoa, Oberon and two Catholic schools in Iona and St Catherine. I am calling on the Andrews Labor government in the upcoming budget to deliver a new primary school for the Charlemont community so that those communities have every opportunity to educate their kids close to home.