Wednesday, 15 May 2024

 Matt FREGON (Ashwood) (17:23): (666) My adjournment question this evening is for the Deputy Premier in his capacity as the Minister for Education, and the action I seek is for him to join me at the fantastic Pinewood Primary School down our way to have a look at the plans that the wonderful school captains Tian Tian Han, Samuel Zuo, Chloe Vo and Lawrence Wei, along with Karen Jenkins, our fantastic principal, showed me the other week. I was delighted to call Karen just last week and let her know that the commitment that we made leading up to the 2022 election to provide and fund and build a new gym for that school is now fully funded. I reckon the minister and I should go and have a chat to them, because apparently they have a 3D video walk-through of how fantastic this gym is going to be. This is a school that over the last 12 years has grown from around 320 students to 990. That is amazing growth in our area. The school does fantastic work. But let us face it, the hall that they had from the last upgrades – which, to his credit, good old Michael Gidley did before we turned up – is not fit for purpose anymore. We made a promise, and we have fully delivered that promise. Now we have just got to get on and build it, which we will do.