"The Montello Primary School community feel "disrespected and unheard" following school funding announced in the state budget.

While the government committed a further $2.5 million, taking the overall state funding to $9.6 million, Ms Forrest said it "always was underfunded and inadequate".

You can read the rest of my comments relating to the funding allocation to Montello Primary School announced in the State Budget, and as reported in the Advocate newspaper at the link below:

https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/8768512/montello-primary-school-feel-unheard-after-state-budget/?cs=87

Alternatively, my full budget reply speech is available here:

https://ruthforrest.com.au/18-parliament/1239-2024-25-budget-reply-speech

 The section of the speech relating to Montello Primary School is here:

You can listen to my latest interview with Leon Compton on ABC Mornings here:

You can listen to my latest interview on ABC Drive here:

You can listen to my latest interview with Leon Compton about the Public Accounts Committee hearings into TT Line here:

You can listen to my latest interview with Leon Compton here:

 You can listen to my interview with ABC Drive, where I discuss the latest from the PAC inquiry into the TT-Line Spirits project, here:

You can listen to my Special Interest Speech about the RSL Life Membership awarded to Elizabeth (Libby) Perkins here:

A transcript of this speech is also available at the link below:

https://ruthforrest.com.au/parliament/speeches/special-interest/1217-special-interest-matters-elizabeth-libby-perkins

You can listen to my interview with Leon Compton on ABC Mornings here:

On Tuesday 18 June 2024, in Special Interest Matters I spoke about some of the high achieving individuals and businesses from the electorate of Murchison, who have recently been recognised at a National and even International level. You can listen to my speech here:

A transcript of this speech can be read here"

https://ruthforrest.com.au/parliament/speeches/special-interest/1202-special-interest-matters-high-achievers-in-murchison

On Tuesday 21 May, in Special Interest Matters I spoke about the West Coast Pathways Program, a ground-breaking program on our wonderful West Coast.

This program was born out of a partnership between the West Coast Wilderness Railway (WCWR) and Mountain Heights High School, Queenstown.

You can listen to the speech here:

You can listen to my latest interview with Leon Compton here:

You can listen to the panel discussion with fellow MLC's Hon Tanya Rattray and Dean Harriss on ABC Mornings here:

You can listen to my latest interview with Leon Compton on ABC Mornings here:

You can listen to my latest interview with Richard Perno here:

You can listen to my latest interview with Richard Perno here:

You can listen to my latest interview on ABC Drive regarding political donations here:

You can listen to my interview with Richard Perno from LAFM here:

You can listen to my interview with Mel Bush on ABC Mornings regarding the Cam River Bridge here:

In October, the Cam River Bridge was reduced to one lane due to flood damage and the lane closure caused significant delays over several days.

Members of the public, have recently noticed a dip in the bridge to be more pronounced.

The space between the sections of the bridge seems wider to the naked eye.The last thing you want is for it to give way without it having any work done to it.

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You can listen to my adjournment speech about the disappointing cut to Big hART funding here:

 A transcript of this speech is available here:

https://ruthforrest.com.au/parliament/speeches/adjournment/1132-big-hart-watershed-program