❓ The Gnowangerup Agricultural School will transition to a regional training centre from January 2006, focusing on agricultural skills training as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. Funding has been allocated for maintenance, and consultation with relevant stakeholders is ongoing.
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(1) Has the role of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School in 2006 and beyond been finally determined? (2) If so, will the minister inform the house what that role will be? (3) Has any funding been allocated for the maintenance of buildings before the commencement of the 2006 school year? (4) Is the minister ensuring that ongoing consultation with the Gnowangerup Agricultural School advisory committee and the Shire of Gnowangerup is being carried out? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
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I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(2) If so, will the minister inform the house what that role will be? (3) Has any funding been allocated for the maintenance of buildings before the commencement of the 2006 school year? (4) Is the minister ensuring that ongoing consultation with the Gnowangerup Agricultural School advisory committee and the Shire of Gnowangerup is being carried out? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(3) Has any funding been allocated for the maintenance of buildings before the commencement of the 2006 school year? (4) Is the minister ensuring that ongoing consultation with the Gnowangerup Agricultural School advisory committee and the Shire of Gnowangerup is being carried out? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(4) Is the minister ensuring that ongoing consultation with the Gnowangerup Agricultural School advisory committee and the Shire of Gnowangerup is being carried out? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(2) If so, will the minister inform the house what that role will be? (3) Has any funding been allocated for the maintenance of buildings before the commencement of the 2006 school year? (4) Is the minister ensuring that ongoing consultation with the Gnowangerup Agricultural School advisory committee and the Shire of Gnowangerup is being carried out? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(3) Has any funding been allocated for the maintenance of buildings before the commencement of the 2006 school year? (4) Is the minister ensuring that ongoing consultation with the Gnowangerup Agricultural School advisory committee and the Shire of Gnowangerup is being carried out? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(4) Is the minister ensuring that ongoing consultation with the Gnowangerup Agricultural School advisory committee and the Shire of Gnowangerup is being carried out? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
I first put on record my thanks to Hon Bruce Donaldson for the question. I recognise the interest he has shown in this issue and the importance of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School. Hon Bruce Donaldson has been a long-term supporter of that agricultural facility. He will know that I have visited Gnowangerup, and that not long after I became minister the issue of the future of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School was brought to my attention. The school has gone from being a thriving agricultural college with boarding facilities etc to really just being a farm for a handful of students who do not quite fit into mainstream education. The college has been teaching about nine boys and had a total staff allocation of something like 22 staff. In terms of the economics of it, it was an absolute disaster. More importantly, I felt that it was not a very good use of the agricultural college, which has a working farm and millions of dollars of capital equipment etc. Probably even more important than that was the fact that these nine boys had been isolated from mainstream society. Being isolated on an agricultural college farm was probably not the best way to prepare them for taking an active part in society. It was considered that we should consider not only the future of the boys in terms of providing them with more mainstream education - they were at the college only because they had discipline problems - but also more broadly the future of that facility. That has occurred. (1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(1)-(2) From 1 January 2006, the Gnowangerup Agricultural School will operate as a regional training centre, focusing on skills training in agriculture and related trade areas in the great southern as an annex to the WA College of Agriculture in Denmark. (3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(3) The college was allocated $189 994 in the 2005-06 financial year. (4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
(4) The regional training centre steering committee includes the chairman of the Gnowangerup Agricultural School farm advisory committee and the Gnowangerup Shire President.
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