Common sense finally prevails with V-Line bus service

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The Andrews Labor Government has finally bowed to community pressure and amended V-Line bus services between Horsham, Stawell and Ararat to allow students to access vocational and education training (VET) courses in Horsham. The decision to implement the trial until the end of the year comes after months of lobbying by the Wimmera Southern Mallee…

Warracknabeal education announcement looks imminent

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The Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy MP believes Warracknabeal is on the cusp of a major education funding announcement. The Warracknabeal Education Precinct project has been in development for more than 15 years, and will see Warracknabeal Secondary College, Warracknabeal Primary School and Warracknabeal Special Development School located at one site. The first stage…

Horsham Bus Services

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Victorian Parliament – 20 February, 2020 –  Ms KEALY (Lowan) (09:40): Horsham’s bus services have been thrown into complete chaos following the Minister for Public Transport’s grand announcement of her rescheduling of services. Students were left in disarray in their first week of school, with students dropped off after school started, picked up before school…

Public Accounts and Estimate Committee

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Victorian Parliament – 19 February, 2020 –  Ms KEALY (Lowan) (10:34): It is a great pleasure to be able to speak on the Report on the 2019—20 Budget Estimates published in October 2019. I would like to refer to page 98 around school infrastructure. School infrastructure is of course extraordinarily important and particularly in an electorate…

St Joseph’s Primary School, Penshurst

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Victorian Parliament – February 6, 2020 – Ms KEALY: The Penshurst community recently supplied me with a petition bearing 150 signatures calling for the installation of electronic school speed signs in Martin Street, Penshurst. I invite the minister to attend St Joseph’s Primary School in Penshurst to see firsthand the dangerous crossing conditions which are putting the lives…

Kealy takes Minister to task over Horsham bus chaos

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The Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy has met with Minister for Public Transport Melissa Horne to convey the community’s fury over state government changes to bus services in Horsham. The minister visited Horsham last week to announce new bus routes, but did not tell locals the true impact of the changes: two school bus…

Huge win as Labor U-turns on school bus routes

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Labor Minister for Public Transport Melissa Horne has caved to immense community pressure from local residents and will reinstate bus routes the government scrapped in Horsham. Ms Kealy had called on the Minister for Public Transport to urgently intervene after changes to bus routes were announced last week which included cuts to a number of…

Horsham bus routes disappoint

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Local families no longer able to use school bus services and elderly residents left without a local bus stop have been left angry and frustrated after the Minister for Public Transport today announced new bus routes in Horsham. “As school goes back it comes as a shock for many families that areas of Horsham have…