Western Metropolitan Region
Moira DEEMING (Western Metropolitan) (12:57): (54) My question is for the Minister for Education. When will the government build a primary school in Williams Landing? Williams Landing is in Wyndham, one of the fastest growing areas in all of Australia. The government reaps an economic reward from this population growth, but it is not matching that income with a corresponding investment in services. Money has been collected from landowners and developers into what is called the Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution Fund. The ABC reported at the end of last year that the fund in Wyndham had collected almost $250 million, but less than half has been allocated, and the government’s latest budget made no funding commitments from that fund. This is inexcusable when we are already behind and playing catch-up in our provision of schools for the west. There is not a single primary school in Williams Landing even though it has a thousand primary school-aged children. Williams Landing needed its own school years ago; they cannot wait any longer.