Tuesday, 16 August 2022

Members statements

Donald and Charlton

Ms STALEY (Ripon) (12:50): Last week I had the great pleasure to go to Donald and Charlton, currently in the great electorate of Ripon but soon to become part of the electorate of Mildura. Over those two days I took the fabulous Liberal candidate for Mildura, Paul Matheson, around Donald and Charlton. We visited many places. We started at the Charlton Neighbourhood House. That is one of the neighbourhood houses that the government has not secured ongoing funding for that we on our side have said we will continue to permanently fund. We then went to the Charlton Traffic Safety Education Centre. That is a fabulous institution that provides real-world training for young people in driver education. That place is in need of a major upgrade; Paul Matheson got that immediately, as a currently serving police officer. We then went to Donald, to the Donald stadium, a project that I am very proud to have been involved with all the way through my tenure in the Parliament. Of course we ended up in Donald at Kooka’s Country Cookies, where we went to see the new facility that they are building there. It is going to be a great facility that will provide expanded production facilities for those great cookies.