Page 1005 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 17 March 2010

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MR HARGREAVES: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. On behalf of Ms Burch and I, being members for Brindabella, I would like to know whether the minister can inform the Assembly of works in the Tuggeranong schools.

MR BARR: I thank Mr Hargreaves for the question and for his interest in schools in Tuggeranong. In Tuggeranong, I can advise that at Caroline Chisholm senior campus there is a new technology classroom. Lanyon high school, classroom refurbishments. Isabella Plains early childhood school, new shade structures and a refurbishment of the hall that the member for Canberra, Annette Ellis, and I opened only last week. The Holy Family parish primary school in Gowrie, one familiar to Mr Smyth, has seen the construction of an early learning centre. Erindale college is receiving classroom refurbishments. Taylor primary school, an upgrade to the front entrance and foyer, hall and classroom refurbishments. St Clare of Assisi, extension and refurbishment of its library. Calwell primary school, new shade structures. Richardson primary school, new shade structures. Fadden primary school, front entry upgrades. Gilmore primary school, new shade structures, a new assembly area and refurbished classrooms and library.

St Thomas the Apostle in Kambah, refurbishment of classrooms. Bonython primary, front entry upgrade, new building and library refurbishments. Lake Tuggeranong college, front entry upgrade and new shade structures. Gowrie and Charles Conder primary schools, also new shade structures. Calwell high school, gymnasium upgrades and a covered outdoor learning area. Calwell primary, refurbishment of the hall, classrooms and library. Monash primary school, new shade structures. Wanniassa Hills primary school, front entry upgrade and a new multipurpose building. Wanniassa school, classroom upgrades and new outdoor learning areas. Gordon primary school, new outdoor learning areas, library, hall and classroom refurbishments. And a new environment centre for Theodore primary school.

Mr Speaker, we are seeing a comprehensive investment in every school in the territory—investment in much-needed facilities. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff of the Department of Education and Training, the Catholic Education Office and the Association of Independent Schools for demonstrating their capacity to deliver these projects and showing the ACT leading the nation in this area.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, a supplementary?

MR HANSON: Yes, Mr Speaker. Minister, will you guarantee that works being conducted in the ACT under the building the education revolution have not been completed or will not be completed at grossly inflated prices, as is the case in a significant number of cases elsewhere in Australia?

MR BARR: Given the slur that Mr Hanson has just cast over the entire building and construction industry in the ACT, I will take this Hansard to everyone in that industry. He has suggested that they are ripping off the people of the ACT. Mr Hanson has suggested that they are ripping off the people of the ACT and have sought to take advantage of an important commonwealth program that is being delivered across all ACT schools. Mr Hanson ought to be ashamed of himself.


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