Bacchus Marsh Grammar says changes to federal funding for non-government schools will force it to cut back on enrolments in one of Melbourne’s growth regions.
Second site approved to take toxic soil from $6.7b West Gate Tunnel project
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Two Victorian landfills have now been approved to receive contaminated soil being dug up to build the $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel.
Bacchus Marsh landfill site Maddingley Brown Coal is the latest to be approved by the Environment Protection Authority to receive huge amounts of rock and soil from the controversial project, which is running at least two years late and estimated by Treasury to be $3 billion over budget.
Work on the West Gate Tunnel has been delayed by a major dispute over how to deal with 3 million tonnes of contaminated soil.
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The Andrews government is being sued by a group of residents and a council in Melbourneâs west over plans to dump soil contaminated with potentially carcinogenic PFAS chemicals from the West Gate Tunnel in landfills located close to homes.
Maddingley Brown Coal landfill in Bacchus Marsh was one of the sites approved to take soil from the West Gate Tunnel.
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Documents lodged in the Supreme Court on Thursday show the Moorabool community group has requested a judicial review of Planning Minister Richard Wynneâs decision to amend the Moorabool Planning Scheme, which would allow potentially millions of tonnes of PFAS-contaminated soil to be dumped at the Maddingley Brown Coal landfill in Bacchus Marsh.
Private schools warn they will lose out despite extra $286m taxpayer fund
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Catholic and independent schools will share in $286 million transition fund.
Coalition of independent schools is warning changes threaten their viability.
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Catholic and private schools in Victoria will share in an extra $286 million from taxpayers as they shift to a new Commonwealth funding model that some non-government schools warn will leave them up to $4 million worse off.
Regional and suburban schools including Bacchus Marsh Grammar, Beaconhills College, Ivanhoe Grammar, Westbourne and Woodleigh say the Morrison government’s new non-government school funding formula will force them to jack up fees and drive many students to state schools.