Thursday, 15 May 2025

 Ellen SANDELL (Melbourne) (14:46): (1126) My constituency question is to the Minister for Education. In my electorate of Melbourne we only have one public high school, University High School, to cater for all of the CBD, Docklands, North Melbourne and Carlton. The school is excellent, and it does its absolute best to accommodate all students, but they are significantly overenrolled. Because of that overcrowding, year 9 students have been moved off campus to a temporary office building that the government has leased for seven years, with no clarity as to what happens after that. The population of my electorate is set to grow 65 per cent over the next 20 years. Arden alone will bring in an extra 30,000 residents, and yet there is only one primary school planned for that area and no high school whatsoever. My question to the Minister for Education is: when will the government find a permanent second campus or expansion for Uni High or build a second public high school in the Melbourne electorate to cater for our wonderful students?