Melbourne electorate
Ms SANDELL (Melbourne) (14:47): (6362) My question today is for the Minister for Education. Last year I worked alongside parents and community members to ensure that the new school campus being built on Abbotsford Street would be a second campus of North Melbourne Primary School and not a separate school. At the time the community feedback was clear—having two schools would divide the community—and I was very pleased the government agreed to make the new campus part of the existing primary school. But now we are hearing that the school might still effectively be split in two, with all year groups at both locations. Parents have been very clear: they do not want to split or divide the community. They want to make sure all kids have access to the same facilities and resources, so there is an obvious preference for a junior and senior campus model. So my question is: can the minister please confirm whether the junior and senior campus model will be supported by the government and department rather than a model that effectively sees two separate schools created?