Richard Wynne MP

Richard Wynne with students Nikkola Mikocki-Bleeker, Michael Kruger and Georgia Bettoli.

The opening of a $3.5 million building has signalled a new era of education at Fitzroy High School – a thriving Victorian school which reopened after being closed by Jeff Kennett’s Liberal Party in the 1990s.

Member for Richmond Richard Wynne today visited the iconic school to officially open the new building – which features science, art and technology studios, a student lounge, careers centre and private study spaces. Read more

The recession-busting Building the Education Revolution (BER) continues to provide better schools for Victorian children and support more than 7000 jobs – with almost 300 projects due for completion this month. Read more

Twenty kinders located across metropolitan and regional Victoria will run trials of 15 hours of kinder for children ahead of a National requirement to be introduced in 2013. Read more

Skills and Workforce Participation Minister Bronwyn Pike today announced the release of $4 million of Brumby Labor Government grants to assist parents considering a return to work. Read more

Students at almost 340 of Victoria’s largest Government schools are surfing the internet at lightning fast speeds, thanks to a major broadband internet upgrade announced today by Education Minister Bronwyn Pike.

State Member for Richmond, Richard Wynne, visited North Fitzroy Primary School today with Ms Pike who said uploading podcasts and downloading multimedia will be a breeze for students at 79 of Victoria’s biggest Government schools when their broadband internet speed is increased from 10 to 50 megabits per second. Read more

The 100,000^th free children’s book was presented today as part of the Brumby Labor Government’s $2.1 million Young Readers Program.

Children and Early Childhood Development Minister Maxine Morand and State Member for Richmond, Richard Wynne, presented the milestone book to two-year-old Audrey Phan and her mother, Huong Nguyen, at the Maternal Child Health Centre in Fitzroy. Read more

State Member for Richmond, Richard Wynne said Victorian government schools will share in $7 million to purchase more computers for their students, with funding available before the start of the 2010 school year. Read more

Melbourne Girls College is set to enjoy 21st century learning spaces as part of the Brumby Labor Government’s $4.5 million to modernise its school.

State Member for Richmond Richard Wynne and Education Minister Bronwyn Pike today visited the Richmond school as capital works continued at the site. Read more

Member for Richmond, Richard Wynne, and Member for Northern Metropolitan Region, Jenny Mikakos, would like to invite local seniors to an afternoon tea with ourselves and the Minister for Consumer Affairs, the Hon. Tony Robinson, to learn how Victorian Seniors can protect themselves from scams in the community.

We are pleased to host this information session during which Minister Robinson will give you an update on the latest scams that are occurring right now in our community and what steps you can take to ensure that you are not caught by one of these scammers.

Location: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

Fitzroy Learning Network, 198 Napier Street FITZROY (Click here for map)

NYCH Collingwood Centre – Meeting Room (The Factory), 365 Hoddle St

Date:

Tuesday 20 October 2009

Time:

2:00pm to 3:00pm

To secure your place, please call 9415 8901 or email richard.wynne@parliament.vic.gov.au by Friday 16 October, 2009.  Given the popularity of these sessions, we would encourage you to RSVP as soon as possible. However, in the event that we reach our capacity, you can register your interest and you will be given priority for our next session.

In the meantime, if you are in doubt about an offer that seems ‘too good to be true’ then we urge you to contact the consumer Help Line on 1300 55 81 81 or contact us for further advice.

Hope to see you there.

Victorian government schools will now enjoy free internet access from the first day of term one in 2010, Education Minister Bronwyn Pike announced today.

All Victorian government schools will have their internet charges covered by the Brumby Labor Government, saving schools projected costs of $9.5 million annually. Read more