Western Victoria Region
Joe McCRACKEN (Western Victoria) (14:15): (973) My question is to the Minister for Education, and it concerns the abandoned old Beaufort Primary School in Leichardt Street in Beaufort. I went and visited it recently, and there were cobwebs everywhere. It has been ransacked. There is graffiti all over the old buildings. This is the number 60 primary school in the state – a heritage-listed building – and it is there rotting. Last state election you guys over there promised $800,000 to fix this place. Nothing is happening. I have got a very personal stake in this because this is my old primary school that I went to and I graduated from, and it is sitting there rotting because you guys cannot manage your own assets. You cannot manage money, you cannot manage projects and you cannot even manage an old school. It is just awful. I hope that the minister can actually do something to make sure that there is some life for this school.