Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) — Once again schools and vital community services in the city of Wyndham have missed out under the Napthine government. In the recent round of school funding announcements no funding for upgrades to Wyndham schools has occurred. The Napthine government has continued to ignore schools in Wyndham. Approximately 80 per cent of schools that received funding were in coalition-held or marginal seats, but not a single Wyndham school received a dollar from the Napthine government’s additional school maintenance funding announcement. That is typical of the Napthine government’s attitude towards education in Wyndham.

The Liberal government has failed to match Victorian Labor’s commitment to deliver $10 million for Tarneit P-9 College and $7 million for Werribee Secondary College capital works. That is despite a 2012 audit of government school maintenance finding that close to $45 million needed to be spent on 142 western suburban schools in order to bring the buildings up to scratch.

In its last term in office, the previous state government invested an average of $467 million a year on school capital works compared to this government’s paltry $278 million.