Page 4127 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, resume your seat. There is no point of order.
Mr Coe: Madam Speaker, I also ask for your guidance as to whether inclusions on people’s statements of interests, especially for a minister, make them applicable to their role as a minister and, therefore, accountable.
MADAM SPEAKER: I would take some further thinking on that but my immediate response is absolutely no, otherwise everyone here will be answering a question on every matter that they have on their declaration of interests.
Mr Hanson interjecting—
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson and Mrs Dunne, I have had enough of your interjections, thank you. I call Miss Burch to ask a supplementary question.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, how many times per week do you travel to work by active travel or public transport, and would you be willing to ride in with Mr Parton?
MR GENTLEMAN: Yes, I do take active transport to work. In fact, I do some 15,000 steps a day most mornings, so I am pretty active. My Fitbit tells me that. I think I will leave Mr Parton to travel in by himself.
Schools—infrastructure plan
MS CODY: My question is to the Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development. Minister, what does the government’s new infrastructure plan include for Canberra schools?
MS BERRY: I am very happy to talk about the important subject of public schools in the ACT. The ACT government’s infrastructure plan includes $2.1 billion of expenditure on education projects. The government is now preparing for a long-term phase of investment in schools that will ensure that all children across all regions of Canberra will have great schools and that schools are planned for and built when they are needed.
The infrastructure plan includes a new primary school at Throsby, set to take students from the 2022 school year, as well as a new high school at Kenny, which is planned to open in 2023. The government will also expand Franklin Early Childhood School and Gold Creek School, while investigating options for additional college facilities in Canberra’s north.
The government will deliver a new P-6 school in Denman Prospect, which will open in 2021 and have places for over 600 students. A future expansion is also planned to include a senior campus for years 7 to 10.
The plan also includes modernisation projects in Campbell Primary School and Narrabundah College to ensure that these schools have fit-for-purpose facilities.
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