Miranda Live: Safe Schools ‘gone for good’ says Luke Foley
THE controversial Safe Schools program will never return to NSW under a Labor government, NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has vowed.
THE controversial Safe Schools program will never return to NSW under a Labor government, NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has vowed.
Labelling the anti-bullying program “gone for good”, the Labor leader vowed to ensure it never resurfaced if he was ever elected NSW premier.
“I want to be clear, the Safe School program will not return,” he told Miranda Devine on her new online radio show Miranda Live.
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“It’s gone for good.”
The controversial program was axed earlier this year, replaced with a broader anti-bullying campaign for schools.
The new resource will equip teachers with tools to target all kinds of bullying and discrimination, while also empowering vulnerable students from becoming radicalised.
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Mr Foley stressed he had a low opinion of the previous Safe School program.
“Schools have a role to stop bullying — but what I won’t have is some theory that comes from a university sociology course doing it,” he said.
“That’s not helping to stop bullying.”
The Opposition Leader also fired a broadside at his opposite number, Premier Gladys Berejiklian, over her $2.5 billion stadium commitment.
The premier, who has already sat in the Miranda Live hot seat has promised to rebuild Sydney’s major stadiums.
“Look at the maintenance backlog, the school maintenance backlog is approaching $1 billion and we have 100,000 schools kids being taught in demountables,” Mr Foley said.
“If I was premier I would not be spending $2.5 billion on replacing a couple of relatively modern stadiums.
“People will not stand for it — it’s like the greyhound ban, people saying “no” to the government’s signature policy.”
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