Wednesday, 15 October 2025

 Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:40): (1868) My constituency question is in respect to the education portfolio and is for Minister Carroll, particularly in respect to Heathmont East Primary School. Heathmont East Primary School currently have stage 1 of their redevelopment program underway, and it does look spectacular. The school community love it, I love it; however, what we want as well are stage 2 and stage 3. The school has very significant buildings which still are in a state of somewhat disrepair, shall I say – I am trying to be kind here. But nonetheless we urgently need the following stages in order to ensure that those children, who receive an outstanding education from the principal team and the wonderful teachers we have at Heathmont East – we need state-of-the-art facilities, as all schools do, particularly our state schools. As a proud state school child, both at primary and secondary school level, with no disrespect to those who were not at state schools, I would urge the minister to find it in his heart and in his budget to make sure that Heathmont East receive stage 2 and stage 3 funding in the coming budget.