Tuesday, 7 February 2023

 Matthew BACH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:00): (8) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Education in the other place, and I ask her: will you instruct your department to work with the City of Whitehorse and the school community at Box Hill Senior Secondary College in an effort to get this school some funding for some indoor sports courts? I want to stress the importance of this funding, because the growing Box Hill Senior Secondary College in my electorate intends to manage and operate a new and expanded facility with local clubs, and their plan is so exciting. It consists of the development of an additional three-court stadium on the school site, which will enable the school to run excellent sport and specialist education programs and cater for expanded growth at the school through increased enrolment opportunities in basketball and sports programs. In meeting with school leaders and others in the local community it has been stressed to me that if the government can come on board and provide what would be just some modest funding in Box Hill, in particular we would be able to see far more women’s sports teams catered for, which would be so exciting. This would be a collaboration with the Koonung Comets Basketball Club and also the Camberwell Dragons basketball club. I have put my question to the minister. I would urge her for a favourable response.