The Queensland government has announced new cost-of-living measures — headlined by a $100 voucher for families with school-aged children — replacing those introduced by its Labor predecessors last year.
Vouchers for school kids is nice, but how about funding our actual overcrowded schools? Indooroopilly and Toowong are both overcrowded already (and in rapidly densifying areas!), and there’s a strong need for a new school. But after the last state government scrapped plans to build a new school on the site of the former Toowong Bowls Club (for well-justified environmental reasons), they didn’t bother planning for a new school, and it looks like the new state government isn’t either. Heck, this government can’t even be bothered funding the much-needed new buildings for Indro High or Toowong State School.
Vouchers for school kids is nice, but how about funding our actual overcrowded schools? Indooroopilly and Toowong are both overcrowded already (and in rapidly densifying areas!), and there’s a strong need for a new school. But after the last state government scrapped plans to build a new school on the site of the former Toowong Bowls Club (for well-justified environmental reasons), they didn’t bother planning for a new school, and it looks like the new state government isn’t either. Heck, this government can’t even be bothered funding the much-needed new buildings for Indro High or Toowong State School.