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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>School Infrastructure Projects, Mount Gambier</name>
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        <heading>School Infrastructure Projects, Mount Gambier</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4844" kind="question">
        <name>Mr BELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Mount Gambier</electorate>
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            <name>School Infrastructure Projects, Mount Gambier</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4844">Mr BELL (Mount Gambier) (15:12):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Education as well. Can the minister inform the house of upgrades to Grant High School and Moorak Primary School?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education</name>
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          <question date="2021-05-12">
            <name>School Infrastructure Projects, Mount Gambier</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education) (15:12):</by>  I thank the member for the question. It was a pleasure to join the member for Mount Gambier visiting the Grant High School when I was in Mount Gambier a little while ago now.</text>
        <text id="202105129ea4cd1b423f4d95b0000716">One of the things that I'm sure the member for Port Adelaide would agree with me is that there is nothing quite as enjoyable as seeing outstanding work going on in our schools when they don't know you're coming—and it was, indeed, with the member for Mount Gambier. We had a schedule of visits. We found ourselves with a spare 20 minutes in between two other schools, and we just dropped into Grant High School to see some of the work they were doing.</text>
        <text id="202105129ea4cd1b423f4d95b0000717">It has been an important set of communications with the principal of Grant High School, who came into Parliament House with the member for Mount Gambier not so long ago, talking about some of those opportunities. Grant High School has a $7 million project currently underway. It's in construction. It includes a new performing arts space, refurbishment to allow an additional science laboratory, new learning spaces to accommodate the year 7 students, and there is a body of other work that's been going on at school in related works, but those are the main aspects of it. My understanding is that that's on track for completion in August.</text>
        <text id="202105129ea4cd1b423f4d95b0000718">What usually happens in those circumstances is that, while the expectation is that it will be ready for next year, it's really exciting that we can get some of these works used by students this year. In relation to Moorak, there is a significant project at Moorak. I don't have the details here right now, but it is one where I know that there has been a significant level of interest from the governing council at Moorak. Particularly, from recollection, it's the early learning facility that needed some extra support, and I'm really optimistic about where that project is going to end up, and I will bring back further information for the member for Mount Gambier.</text>
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