Thursday, 18 June 2026

 Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (14:08): (2422) My constituency question is also to the Minister for Education. The school community of St Kilda Park Primary School in my electorate have concerns about the school’s longstanding infrastructure needs. St Kilda Park Primary School is a growing school of more than 300 students on a space-constrained, heritage-listed site. The school community has raised concerns with me about ageing and noncompliant toilet facilities and the lack of an indoor multipurpose hall, meaning that school assemblies, sports classes, performances and community events are often required to take place outdoors and are exposed to weather and all of the difficulties that entails. The school has repeatedly sought capital works funding to address these issues but remains without the upgrades that it needs. Parents are concerned that these longstanding infrastructure issues are affecting students’ wellbeing and limiting opportunities for the school community. Minister, will the government commit funding to upgrade these facilities and ensure St Kilda Park Primary School has the infrastructure its students and its community truly need?