Wednesday, 19 March 2025

 Tim RICHARDSON (Mordialloc) (09:45): Recently I had the opportunity to join the Mordialloc College community and our federal member Mark Dreyfus, the federal member for Isaacs and Attorney-General of Australia, to acknowledge the amazing student leaders and the contributions they make at Mordialloc College. This is a school that has seen significant growth and upgrades that the Allan and Andrews Labor governments have supported significantly. We have seen an upgrade to their stages in their performing arts centre, basketball court upgrades and stadium upgrades, and then we saw the amazing junior learning centre investments in recent years. To meet the student leaders recently – Eden Handfield, Catherine Cole, Madison Sinn and Auburn Hewet – and hear their vision and values and their focus for the future was absolutely outstanding.

We have got an allocation and a commitment that we made for $12.6 million to upgrade Mordialloc College as part of the next stage, their STEAM learning centre, which is a continued investment in the future of our students, because we want the first-class education there at Mordialloc College, which is state leading, to be matched with first-class facilities.

We have seen the school grow over the time I have been privileged enough to represent the Mordialloc district, going from 570 students to now 1250. People move into our community choosing the great public education like that at Mordialloc College because of the success, the values and the leadership. A big shout-out goes to principal Rachael Stone for all the work that she does.