Wednesday, 29 October 2025

 Tom McINTOSH (Eastern Victoria) (10:01): It was great to be back at Mirboo North Secondary College and Mirboo North Primary School, and I had a surprise guest. I had the Premier with me, which was fantastic. Thank you to principals Melissa and Matt and the whole school for putting on an absolutely great show. We were met by the secondary school student leaders and by the primary school captains. We were joined by teachers and staff, and we even had a special guest appearance from local basketball champion Belinda Snell, so we shot some hoops. The Premier hit her first shot. I missed every shot I made, just to make everybody else look really good. Belinda obviously hit them, but the star of the show was young Patrick, Belinda’s son, who with about 100 people watching on got the ball through it. Everyone gave him a round of applause, and his face lit up. It was a beautiful moment. We then went to look at results of the Landcare grants that the school has been using to propagate plants for around the school and around the town.