Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (18:54): (2556) My adjournment for this evening is for the Minister for Education, and the action I seek is for the priority repairs urgently needed at Beulah Primary School to be completed. Beulah is a beautiful little community in the west of my Northern Victoria Region. For almost 100 years, the primary school has been the heart and soul of the community. Beulah is bucking the trend of many regional towns and growing in numbers. The school currently has six primary students, with the potential to grow to over 30 students in the coming years. The community are proud of their school, often fundraising and completing needed works themselves, but this time they need the government to own their responsibilities and cover the repairs needed in the almost 100-year-old building. During a recent visit to the school, which I was invited to to discuss their less than adequate preschool facilities, I was shown the temporary fixes done to the main building: holes in walls and the floor in the makeshift preschool room patched with plywood; render crumbling off the walls; and teachers, people with disabilities and the baby change table all sharing the same toilet space. When I asked how long they had been waiting for these repairs, I was told, ‘Almost 12 months.’ Almost 12 months ago these repairs were marked as priority repairs, which need to be completed in a six-month timeframe. If this school was in Melbourne or perhaps a more populated seat, these repairs would have been done as soon as possible. But as this is a regional community, it is once again forgotten by this city-centric government. Regional kids deserve the same facilities and opportunities as kids in metro areas, not to be left waiting for their school to receive vital repairs for almost 12 months. It is not fair, it is not right and it needs to be rectified now. Minister, the action I seek is for the priority repairs urgently needed at the Beulah Primary School to be completed.