Constituency questions
Euroa electorate
Ms RYAN (Euroa) (14:41): (6356) My question today is to the Treasurer. I would like to know when the Andrews government will sell the old Benalla High School campus on Barkly Street. When Benalla college moved out of that site in November 2018 the Barkly Street campus was in good repair. It had been well maintained by the school, and the buildings were structurally quite good. At the time I urged the government to move swiftly to find a new purpose for the site to make sure that it did not fall into disrepair. Instead of heeding that advice, the government has sat on its hands. It erected temporary fencing and basically left the school and the campus to deteriorate. The constructive thing to do would have been to sit down with the community and actually have a conversation with them about appropriate use for the site, but instead the government has just walked away, and it has become a target for vandals and for graffiti. Unfortunately, the government has got a track record of this. I saw it happen with the Seymour East Primary School, and I want action.