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…
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…
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…
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…
The Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy has called on the Minister for Public Transport to urgently intervene after Public Transport Victoria cut the number of school bus routes in Horsham from seven to five. The Minister visited Horsham last week to announce new bus routes, however Ms Kealy said the Minister had neglected to…
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…
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…
Primary schools across Lowan are becoming increasingly concerned that many of this year’s Prep students have not yet had their school entrance health screen under the Primary School Nurse Program. The program is designed to identify children with potential health-related learning difficulties and to respond to parent/carer concerns and observations about their child’s health and…
Labor Minister for Education, James Merlino MP has finally visited the Lowan electorate today, but disappointingly he is yet another Labor Minister to have left the chequebook at home. “Rather than announce additional funding for the school nurse program to assess hundreds of Prep kids that have missed their school entrant health and learning screening…
The Nationals Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy will use a design by Charlie Mayes, a Year 6 student at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School Warracknabeal as the cover for her 2019 Christmas card. Ms Kealy wrote to all primary schools in the electorate inviting students to design the cover of her Christmas card, asking them…
