Thomastown electorate schools funding
Ms HALFPENNY (Thomastown) (17:40): (5364) I would like to raise a matter with the Minister for Education regarding the exciting budget announcement to provide over $50 million to upgrade, rebuild and improve schools in the safe seat of Thomastown. The action that I seek is that the minister comes out to visit some of the students, parents, teachers and principals that will benefit from this fantastic state budget announcement and to hear firsthand how much this news means and how much it will transform learning environments. There are 19 government schools, plus two new ones getting built as we speak, in the electorate. There is always more to be done; however, this new announcement will mean that 13 of the 19 current schools will have had major investments from Labor, 10 schools just in the last six years of an Andrews Labor government.