Page 3169 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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The budget also provides nearly $13 million to upgrade Taylor primary school so it can return to operation on its original site. We have provided $2.8 million for an expansion of Duffy primary school to help meet increased demand for places in the Weston Creek area, particularly as the development of Molonglo takes shape in coming years.
The government has also provided more than $13 million for other upgrade and improvement work at schools right across the city. This includes new classrooms at the Malkara school, upgrades to Stromlo, Calwell, Wanniassa, Belconnen and Lyneham high schools, improvements to school security across the city and a range of new shade structures for our preschools.
This is just some of the work that the ACT government will be undertaking in schools in this fiscal year. We do so because we believe in public education and because we are committed to providing our students and our teachers with world-class facilities and infrastructure.
Our record in this area stands in marked contrast to those opposite, who are consistently on the record as describing investment in public education as throwing good money after bad.
MR SESELJA: Supplementary.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Seselja.
MR SESELJA: Can the minister provide an update of the current estimated blow-out in the north Weston ponds infrastructure project?
MR BARR: No.
MS PORTER: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Ms Porter.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Ms Porter has the floor, thank you.
MS PORTER: Minister, can you inform the Assembly why it is so important to invest continually in the upgrade of our schools?
Mr Seselja: Like Taylor?
MR BARR: I do note the interjection from the Leader of the Opposition. Let me just say that I will, in any forum, anywhere in this country, debate the Labor Party’s record in investment in public education against the pathetic effort of the Liberal Party, both nationally and locally. The ACT—
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