Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (12:46): (2278) My constituency question is to the Minister for Education. Across the Southern Metro Region we see littered examples of public schools missing out, spending years begging for essential infrastructure – like the St Kilda Primary School community hall, which has still not been built, in violation of promises from the Andrews–Allan government. Families, students and school staff across Southern Metro are standing in solidarity with Victoria’s public school teachers who have been on strike and are walking off the job because they are exhausted, underpaid and being asked to do more with less. At the same time the Allan government has still left Victoria short of full and fair Gonski funding, with the Victorian Department of Education saying the current agreement will reach 100 per cent of the school resource standard only by 2034, while the AEU says that Victorian public schools are being denied $2.4 billion through to 2031. Will the government commit to properly funding public schools in the Southern Metro Region now so teachers and education support staff have the resources, pay and support that they need to stay in the profession?