Wednesday, 29 October 2025

 Jackson TAYLOR (Bayswater) (10:04): By the time you are all watching this, which I am sure you will, we will have officially opened the new facilities at Kent Park Primary School in Ferntree Gully, aka the Gully. We love Kent Park; it is a beautiful place. Principal Kieran Denver has been an absolute champion, a legend, a great bloke and a fantastic principal down at that fantastic school. We love Kent Park. We are getting this project delivered: it is a new synthetic oval; it is a new running track; it is new playgrounds. This was an election commitment, now very proudly delivered by the Allan Labor government. I am looking forward to getting out there and opening it up this Friday. But when you see this, it will be a Friday already gone past, which is fantastic – I cannot wait.

And of course work at St Jo’s primary school in Boronia is nearly finished. It is also home to one of the best school songs – probably the best school song in the state of Victoria. It is the school on the side of the hill.

Alison Marchant interjected.

Jackson TAYLOR: I will not sing it, member for Bellarine. I tell you what, though, you might convince me before the end of my time in this place.

We have upgraded that wonderful school, which will provide the learning facilities that the school absolutely deserves. It has been great working with principal Mark Westwood and the entire school community – always very generous.

And work is well and truly underway at Bayswater South Primary School – another election commitment delivered by the Allan Labor government, with over $11 million delivered. The new toilets and storage facilities are open, the retaining walls are all done – a previous bit of work – and all the upgrades to learning facilities on all the classrooms at the school are underway. Thank you very much, principal Bret Mottrom and the entire school community.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: A big shout-out to Kent Park Primary, my old primary school.