Archive for October, 2006

  2006  October

Education, News

School Maintenance

DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR OUR KIDS?

Ted visits Caulfield Junior CollegeTed inspects the state of things at Caulfield Junior College

Ted Baillieu visited Caulfield Junior College this morning to see for himself the state of disrepair in our schools.

Addressing Victoria’s massive school maintenance backlog will be a top priority under a $250 million Liberal Government plan.

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show that Caulfield Junior College needs $266,852 worth of maintenance work to bring it up to scratch.

This money will be made available from the school rescue fund if we are elected next month.  Altogether Caulfield Schools need over $2m worth of urgent maintenance.

Here is the full list of Caufield’s school maintenance backlog to be fixed by a Baillieu government: Read more about…



Mental Health

Our Plan For Victorians’ Mental Health

Helen with Ted and Jason Dowling of The Sunday Age at the launchHelen & Ted with Jason Dowling of The Sunday Age after launching the policy

 Our plan for mental health released last week will return Victoria to the forefront of mental health care in Australia with $225.7 million of initiatives.

The plan is designed to tackle a problem that has become the western
world’s pandemic – and is getting worse. Read more about…



Waiting List Fraud

Pike’s Waiting List Lies Demolished

Labor’s pre-election waiting list swindle is in tatters today following revelations that the government has stopped patients getting hospital appointments to prevent them joining the surgery waiting list.

This is one of the worst frauds perpetrated by any government in the
history of the Victorian health system.

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