Speeches

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [6.50 pm]: Justifiably, education is receiving a lot of attention at the moment, so I rise this evening to draw members’ attention to an ongoing issue for western suburbs schools. The previous government had planned to deal with overcrowding in western suburbs schools by reopening City Beach high school. To do that, the two private schools that had been renting space on the site were to move. That meant that the Japanese School in Perth was to go to City Beach Primary School.

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [9.52 pm]: I rise because I need to talk about something to do with the Shenton Park Rehabilitation Hospital site. I have spoken about this issue before. I want to talk about what has happened with the infill development. This site is otherwise known as Montario Quarter. As I said before in this place, I recognise that infill is needed, but we must be looking at good infill. Particularly on the Swan coastal plain, we really need to be looking at green infill that will prioritise and protect our natural assets.