Page 2290 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 23 June 2010
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policy that will now allow a non-government school to operate from the old Hall school.
I also have pushed very hard through the former children and young people minister and now through the current one around the Flynn school site. And that was to ensure that the government, as the committee inquiry recommended, work with the John Flynn community group to look at the future uses and continue to implement the work around the former Flynn primary school site. I have also kept in regular contact with this group, ensuring that the process to refurbish this site into a vibrant community facility moves forward, including making it clear to government that money had to be made available in the 2010-11 budget to start the refurbishment. That is why I am very pleased to see $4 million was announced in the 2010-11 budget to get that going.
I do not know whether you sent a letter off to the minister pushing for a budget allocation. I certainly was in there. I was pushing to make sure it happened. And I am pleased to see that there was some money allocated. I note that the John Flynn community group and others in the Flynn community are pleased to see that it will not just sit there and continue to deteriorate. This has now happened. I have been actively engaging with and lobbying for these communities.
I will go back to Tharwa and Hall. We did have a very fine performance from Mr Smyth who was almost, I think, sobbing at the end of his speech. It was very emotional. I have been to Tharwa and I have had meetings. I have been taken for tours around Tharwa, and I can tell you that we have got a good relationship with the Tharwa community and the Hall community.
One of the other things I would like to also put on the record is, besides the increased preschool hours down at Tharwa, we also pushed—
Mrs Dunne: You need to be really careful. You might find out things that you do not want to hear.
Ms Bresnan: What? Was that a threat? Are you threatening me?
Mrs Dunne: No. I am suggesting you give a little bit and stop spending your time—
MS HUNTER: Sorry, I cannot hear myself speak.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Le Couteur): Mrs Dunne, please hear the member in silence.
MS HUNTER: Thank you, Madam Assistant Speaker. Besides the increased preschool hours at Tharwa, I have also met with the Minister for Planning and have been lobbying and pushing—
Ms Gallagher: No bullying in the workplace, Mrs Dunne.
Mr Doszpot: I wouldn’t go there if I were you.
Ms Gallagher: We are just seeing an example of it right here.
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