Kurri Kurri Study Hub

18 November 2024

The Minister for Education and I have something in common. We were the first people in our family to go to university. And I have something in common with you, Deputy Speaker Claydon, in that the beautiful University of Newcastle is in your electorate, and in 1989, I attended that university for the first time, as the first person in my family. Driving to uni in those days was probably about 45 minutes. Well, it's gotten a lot busier and a lot harder to get to the University of Newcastle, because we know a lot of people want to live in our magnificent region. That is why I'm so delighted to be part of a government that is doing the Suburban University Study Hubs. For the Kurri Kurri community centre, we have now announced that we are going to set up a university hub.

Kurri Kurri is my hometown, but in the wisdom of the Australian Electoral Commission, they have redistributed it to the seat of Hunter, and the member for Hunter will now be taking over looking after my beautiful hometown of Kurri Kurri, and I know he is going to do a magnificent job. But I just want to say to all of those students that are going to come from Heddon Greta, Maitland, Cessnock or wherever they are coming from to study at the Kurri community centre, as a Labor government university study hub, it is going to be such a great place. You won't have to battle for parking at uni. There'll be other people who will be studying university courses and trying to get assessments in. It is going to be a great thing. Enjoy the university study hub at Kurri Kurri.