Over 2500 Wentworth constituents have signed a petition calling for a new public high school in the Eastern Suburbs.
Join Allegra, Independent State Member for Sydney Alex Greenwich, and architect Adam Swinburn to discuss Adam's designs for a new public high school at the Edgecliff Centre, the vision for the proposal and what you can do to help push for change.
While 50% of our kids attend public primary schools, less than 20% go to public high schools.
Many young families are being forced to move out of the area just to access public schooling.
Community pressure has delivered a $42 million investment in an upgraded co-ed public high school in Randwick, but it's clear we need more options.
That's why Allegra has been working with an architect to come up with plans for a public high school at a site in Edgecliff, which is central, has great access to public transport and green spaces and it is currently up for redevelopment.
Adam Swinburn is passionate about creating timeless, enduring architectural solutions to our city’s spatial problems. He currently holds the position of Senior Associate at JPW, a Sydney-based architecture and urban design studio. He is a NSW Registered Architect and a double master’s of Architecture and Research graduate from the University of Technology, Sydney. Adam’s strategic thinking and creative innovation have been recognised with scholarships and prizes, including the Australian Institute of Architects David Lindner Prize, Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship and Designing Architecture in Response to Climate Change Scholarship.
Alex Greenwich MP is the Independent Member for Sydney in the NSW Parliament, first elected in 2012. Alex was the co-chair of the successful YES campaign that delivered marriage equality in 2017, a movement he led for over a decade. In 2019 Alex introduced and successfully passed the co-sponsored Reproductive Healthcare Reform Bill which decriminalised abortion in NSW. In 2022, Alex passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, to provide dignity in death to people with a terminal illness in NSW. In October his Equality Bill passed, delivering more LGBTIQA+ reforms in one go in the state’s history.
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