Thursday, 9 June 2022

Ringwood electorate schools

Mr HALSE (Ringwood) (09:55): Over the last four years our government has doubled the amount of infrastructure funding going into local schools in the district of Ringwood. This is real money. These are real outcomes. It is what strong local advocacy gets for a community. Every single public high school in the district of Ringwood is receiving a multimillion-dollar upgrade right now. This is fantastic. This is what Labor stands for. We know that every dollar invested in our local schools is a dollar well spent. The investment return for the wider community is exponential. As Nelson Mandela once said:

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

This government believes that. We will continue to push forward so that students get the very best facilities, the facilities that they deserve. It is also not lost on me that, like many workforces, our teachers have done it tough over the last few years and have been stretched thinly. I thank them for their enduring commitment to our community and to our students. This is about acting; this is about getting things done, and the Andrews Labor government is getting things done for our community in the east and for students right across the district of Ringwood.