Tuesday, 16 June 2026

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:59): (2390) My constituency question is to the Minister for Education. It concerns troubling reports in the Herald Sun today. Thanks to more than a decade of Labor’s financial mismanagement, thousands of Victorian students could be forced to find a new school as the Allan Labor government considers shutting down or merging multiple public colleges. These reports include Peter Lalor Secondary College in Lalor and Northern College of the Arts and Technology in Preston, both in my electorate. It is deeply troubling for these school communities that their education could be disrupted because of Labor’s fundamental inability to manage money. This comes on the back of the actual closure of Essendon Keilor College’s East Keilor campus, which I asked the minister about last year. His answer was due more than 202 days ago. That is some very late homework by the education minister. Will the minister act to protect these schools and others at risk by ensuring they are not shut down or merged?