Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Ivanhoe electorate funding

Anthony CARBINES (Ivanhoe – Minister for Police, Minister for Community Safety, Minister for Victims, Minister for Racing) (10:12): There were plenty of winners in the state budget in the Ivanhoe electorate just last week. I want to give a shout-out to the Ivanhoe Park Croquet Club, with a quarter of a million dollars for significant upgrades at the Ivanhoe Park Croquet Club. With over 100 years of service to the local community, it is a very well regarded club in my electorate. The James Reserve change rooms upgrade, particularly around the female-friendly change rooms, will be great over there in Heidelberg Heights at the James Street reserve. It is a great program, the female-friendly change rooms, that has been introduced by our government.

There will be safer and more accessible stations, with the tactile ground surface indicators at Heidelberg station, which follows on from the advocacy and the work from local constituents in my electorate. We have been able to do that at Ivanhoe Station, and that will be extended. A big one here is the $50 million National TAFE Centre of Excellence in Housing and Construction at the polytechnic campus in West Heidelberg, with a $25 million contribution from the Allan government and a $25 million contribution from the Albanese government. That is a very significant development that will occur on the corner of Bell Street and Waterdale Road at the West Heidelberg campus of Melbourne Polytechnic, a TAFE where the only contribution those opposite made was when they tried to charge for car parking for the tradies and the students who were parking in West Heidelberg. I am looking forward to that project and so many others, particularly with my colleague the member for Bundoora the half a million dollars for Streeton Primary School.