Thursday, 6 March 2025

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:46): (1444) My constituency question is to the Minister for Education, and it concerns the shocking allegations of widespread bullying at Wallan Primary School. I was horrified listening to many residents’ reports that Wallan Primary is suffering an outburst of bullying, including mental and physical abuse, racism, stabbings and other behaviours that are not being adequately dealt with. School students in Wallan and across Victoria deserve to be able to go to school and feel safe and feel welcome while getting a decent education. Instead we have kids talking about being stabbed, parents saying they watched their kids get stomped on and mothers being excluded from campus for trying to protect their children. This is unacceptable, and so I ask the minister when he first learned about these allegations and what he did about them and as a matter of urgency to investigate this and stamp out the culture of bullying at Wallan Primary School.