Rosehill Secondary College
Trung LUU (Western Metropolitan) (17:45): (181) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Education. The action I seek is for urgent funding to be provided from the Minor Capital Works Fund to rectify a major drainage problem affecting the Rosehill Secondary College student play area. In April I had the pleasure of conducting a school visit at Rosehill Secondary College. The school site is a large, attractive site with a view over the Maribyrnong River valley, and the school is part of the Moonee Valley network of schools in the south-western metropolitan region. The school is a single campus, with years 7 to 12, and has 1200 students evenly split between girls and boys. During my visit I inspected the school’s areas and discussed with the principal how when it comes to the outdoor play areas the school has a very challenging matter after heavy rains and wet weather. The site is built on clay soil, and the recreation area in the middle of the school between the building structures becomes very waterlogged. With poor drainage in the area it is deemed hazardous to walk upon and too dangerous for any sort of play activity, and it is occasionally zoned off. This is evidence that funding is required from the Minor Capital Works Fund to rectify the major drainage problem of the recreation area, the suggested solution being for better drainage to be implemented as soon as possible. The drainage in the area needs to be rectified for groundwater and surface water. I ask the minister to consider this matter as urgent and have it dealt with as soon as possible.