Tuesday, 16 June 2026

 Kathleen MATTHEWS-WARD (Broadmeadows) (13:44): I am fortunate to have six work experience students doing placement with me over May and June. In May Tugra Uzun from John Fawkner joined me for eight community meetings and for walk to school day at Corpus Christi and Broadmeadows Primary to discuss road safety on Blair Street. Rushil Raina from Penola and I also visited schools, including the magnificent new tech school for Broadmeadows; John Fawkner and their fabulous new buildings; Glenroy College, to celebrate their million-dollar state budget funding; Moomba Park, to announce their new music room; and Roxburgh Rise, with the member for Greenvale, to talk to the grade 6 students and their dedicated teacher Rob Merlino. And we loved visiting Broadmeadows Special Development School to check out the new gym, performing arts centre and art and food tech spaces, delivered through a massive $20 million investment from the state Labor government.

This week I have the pleasure of hosting Trisha Le and Rudra Nayak from Hume Central, and I am looking forward to hosting more young people next week with Allaiza Serna and Elif Eskin joining me.