Schools funding
Ms HUTCHINS (Sydenham—Minister for Education, Minister for Women) (10:03): Deputy Speaker, the Victorian government is committed to growing educational opportunities in the outer western suburbs, as you would know. We have invested $12.8 billion over the last eight years in Victoria to deliver more than 1850 school upgrades and open 75 new schools, with an additional $1.8 billion in our recent budget to build more schools and improve the existing ones. I am very proud of our commitments that we have delivered and that are underway across the outer west, including $10 million for Copperfield College; $25 million for Exford Primary School; the construction of Deanside Primary School, which has just been completed and opened; $31 million for Staughton College; $35 million for the new Springside West Secondary College; $19 million towards Burnside Primary School; the construction of Eynesbury Primary School; $10 million to upgrade Parkwood Green Primary School; construction of a new secondary school and specialist school in Aintree; a new primary school in Brookfield; construction of a primary school in Rockbank; $7.5 million for Taylors Lakes Primary School; more than $20 million for Taylors Lakes Secondary school; a brand new build at Victoria University Secondary College in Cairnlea; and so many more schools to ensure Victorian children have the bright future that they deserve. We are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding the education space in the outer western suburbs. As a proud westie I know that these are historic investments.