Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Tarneit electorate schools

Ms CONNOLLY (Tarneit) (14:14): I want to celebrate the fantastic commitment of this budget to schools and the families right across my electorate of Tarneit. In the last four years four new schools in the Tarneit electorate have been opened by our government, with another two set to open next year. I am pleased to announce that in 2024 a brand new primary school and a high school will open in Tarneit, along with Truganina North Secondary School, which was funded last year and has received an additional amount of funding to go ahead and build the junior campus in Elements estate at the recently announced Truganina North education precinct. This was a triumph for my local community, where land that would have otherwise become housing instead will now host a secondary school campus.

And I am pleased to tell those folks they are not just getting a secondary school, they are getting a primary school as well, with Truganina North primary school funded to be built and opened in 2024 at the same time as their high school, years and years ahead of schedule. To top this off, land will also be bought for another primary school in Tarneit in Riverdale North. We are also upgrading Mossfiel Primary School with almost $500 000 and Warringa Park School, which will receive $14.6 million. Now, when those opposite were last in government they did not deliver the schools we needed and in opposition have showed no commitment whatsoever to building new schools in Wyndham and Melbourne’s outer west. From 2018 to 2025 nine schools will have been built in the Tarneit electorate alone. It is clear to me which side of the chamber cares about education opportunities.