Tuesday, 18 February 2025

 David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:59): (1374) My constituency question today is for the attention of the Minister for Children, and it concerns the Windsor Community Children’s Centre in Windsor, a centre that the state government seems determined to close. It was interesting during the campaign for Prahran that there were people from all political parties other than Labor who were prepared to meet at the Windsor centre and to campaign and push heavily for that centre to be kept open. What I am asking the minister to do is to meet with the new member for Prahran Rachel Westaway, who will no doubt be declared in coming days, down at the site of the Windsor Community Children’s Centre and to actually listen to the community to understand what is so important about retaining that childcare centre. The minister in this chamber has not shown a capacity to listen on these matters, but I think the election result shows very clearly that Rachel and the community will be prepared to work with her to save the centre.