A Shorten Labor Government will deliver $4 million in funding to complete the Diamond Creek Trail. The project is Nillumbik Shire Council’s highest infrastructure priority, and has been pursued for over 20 years. It has strong community support, with more than a dozen community and sports groups throwing their weight behind council’s push to fund the trail.
Read MoreA Shorten Labor Government will invest an extra $300 million to ensure students with disability get the support they need at school. The numbers of students assessed as eligible for disability funding in Australia has doubled from about 220,000 to around 450,000.
Read MoreThe first comprehensive Australian research on loneliness, released this weekend, represents a challenge policy-makers must respond to. The Australian Loneliness Report, produced by the Australian Psychological Society, found that one in four Australians are lonely, and that the issue affects all genders and nearly all age groups.
Read MoreThe Victorian Liberal Party’s so-called ‘school education values statement’ isn’t a policy but an insult to Victorian students and their families.
Read MoreToday in the Federation Chamber, the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Greg Hunt, was unable to give a straight answer on needs-based funding...
Read MoreLabor welcomes the statement of Member for Melbourne that he will vote against the Coalition’s $22 billion cuts to our schools...
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