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Labor’s education pledge Opposition promises primary and high school for Rutherford area AMELIA PARROTT
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abor has committed to building a new high school and primary school in the Rutherford area if it wins the election on March 28. Visiting Aberglasslyn last week, Opposition Leader Luke Foley said a Labor Government would commit $25 million to a new primary school and $40 million for a new Maitland high school through the party’s $3 billion Better Schools and Hospitals Fund. “The Lower Hunter is a booming region and Rutherford Primary School is at the edge of its capacity with about 700 students enrolled in the school,� he said. “A new primary school is a necessity and Labor will deliver it without the need to privatise the electricity network.� Mr Foley said the construction of the new primary school would be Labor’s first priority, but all-but ruled out construction beginning in their first term. Funds would be reserved to construct a new high school as the need grows. Both schools would include before and after school childcare provisions to assist working parents. However, Liberal candidate for Maitland Steve Thomson said Labor’s announcement lacked substance. “They have said the primary school is a priority
NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley and Labor candidate for Maitland Jenny Aitchison scope out potential land for a new primary school at Aberglasslyn but they have no land, and no commitment to build it in the next four years,� he said. “They say the high school is important too but again won’t build it in the next four years, and
they are supposedly building it in Maitland, when their candidate has been calling for it out west. “This smacks of an election promise for 2019, not now.�
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