Page 4066 - Week 13 - Thursday, 6 December 2007
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installation of advanced cooling and heating systems and an upgrade of the admin area and the staff room. Forrest primary school is having external painting and a roof safety upgrade. Hughes primary school is having a complete older school upgrade with external painting. Lyneham primary school is having a complete school upgrade, involving their library, their school hall, all of their playground equipment and improvements to the heating and cooling systems.
We have allocated $2.5 million to establish the early childhood centre at Lyons primary. There will be an upgrade of landscaping at Majura primary school; a canteen upgrade and improved disability access at Mawson primary school; $2.5 million for the establishment of the early childhood centre at Narrabundah primary school; external painting and air conditioning in the library at Ngunnawal primary school; completion of the security fencing at north Ainslie primary school, as well as an upgrade of the car park, restoration of the oval and junior and senior playground upgrades.
Palmerston primary school will have external painting and flooring and security upgrades. Red Hill primary school will have a comprehensive school refurbishment. Telopea will have an older school upgrade and an environmental upgrade to improve that school’s energy and water usage. There will be a comprehensive school refurbishment at Turner primary school; another comprehensive school refurbishment at Yarralumla primary school with an external repaint and playground restoration and external painting at the O’Connor cooperative school.
In the high school sector, nearly $20 million has been allocated. $4 million has been allocated to Alfred Deakin high for a complete older school upgrade, improvements to security and an upgrade of the staff room. Campbell high will have a complete older school refurbishment, involving refurbishments to their computer rooms and electrical and roof upgrades.
Most importantly, at Lyneham high school there will be a $5 million, state-of-the-art performing arts centre, an upgrade of their gymnasium, an upgrade of their science labs and all of the internal classrooms and, as well, an external paint job. At Stromlo high construction of a gymnasium is part of the government’s program to ensure that every government high school in the ACT has a gymnasium and a hall. There will be a complete older school upgrade at Stromlo high.
Moving into the college sector, Canberra College will have a new floor for their gymnasium, internal painting of the entire school, environmental upgrades and upgrades to their art areas. Dickson College will have a complete older school upgrade and an environmental upgrade. Narrabundah College will have a $5.5 million upgrade, with upgrades to science labs, complete refurbishment of the college and a special upgrade for their photography lab.
All in all, there will be nearly $53.5 million worth of upgrades to our public education system in the electorate of Molonglo. As the local member and the minister for education I am very proud to be part of the Stanhope Labor government that is delivering these sorts of upgrades comprehensively across all schools not only in my electorate but across the entire territory. This government believes in investing in
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