Thursday, 12 May 2022

Members statements

Kyabram school bus services

Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) (09:51): I raise the concerns of several families in Undera who cannot get a school bus to their closest secondary school unless they drive 6 kilometres to St Germains, which is just up the road. Families are being forced to drive the 6 kilometres from Undera to St Germains each morning and each night so that their children can attend the school in Kyabram. If they do not drive to St Germains each morning and each night, their children have to go on a longer bus trip to the Shepparton super-school, a school which their families do not want their children attending for all the reasons which have been well documented.

The simple solution is to have the current school bus route from St Germains to Kyabram extended to Undera so that these children can have a shorter school trip to go to school. I ask the Minister for Education and the minister for transport to actually work together to have this bus route changed so that these students from Undera can attend their closest school. Changing school bus routes is a challenge quite often, but I ask those two ministers to please work together to have this bus route changed so that the students from Undera can attend school in Kyabram without their parents having to drive 6 kilometres to and back from St Germains each morning and each night.