Western Sydney has been promised 15 new schools over the next four years. The state government says it will spend three and-a-half billion dollars to build the campuses as enrolments surge.
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00:00 Liverpool is one of Sydney's fastest growing areas.
00:05 There are already three public primary schools in the suburb,
00:08 and a fourth is due to open next year.
00:11 It'll be actually very good.
00:12 There'll be less burden on teachers, less class numbers.
00:15 They need more teachers, actually.
00:18 That's what is more important.
00:20 Gullion Gurry Public is one of 15 new schools in Western Sydney
00:24 Labor has promised to deliver during this term of government.
00:27 Our commitment for all these new primary and high schools
00:30 is that they will be open by 2027, and we stick by that commitment.
00:34 Nine of those were already funded by the Coalition,
00:37 including a new primary school at Gregory Hills
00:40 and a new high school at Wentworth Point.
00:43 These new schools will fill up really quickly
00:45 because the previous government did not build them
00:48 while people were moving in.
00:49 The new schools will cost $3.5 billion,
00:53 $500 million more than the Coalition pledged.
00:56 There is overcrowding in our schools.
00:58 The projected growth of student enrolment
01:01 over the next period is significant.
01:04 The government is yet to reveal where the extra money for schools
01:07 will come from in next week's budget
01:09 or how it'll afford a pay rise promised to teachers.
01:12 It hasn't told us, for example,
01:14 whether it's going to reallocate funding
01:16 from regional New South Wales, from other parts of Sydney,
01:18 to pay for the extra $500 million.
01:21 But the Premier says the cuts won't come from education.
01:24 There are difficult decisions that need to be made,
01:27 but those decisions don't extend to the education
01:29 of the next generation of young Australians.
01:31 A generation set to be paying off record levels of state debt.
01:35 debt.
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