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Hosking’s $5m promise to Lancaster Primary School

By Ivy Jensen

Oct 10, 2026

The Nationals candidate for Murray Plains, Brett Hosking, and Shadow Education Minister Brad Rowswell announcing the $5 million for Lancaster Primary School.

Lancaster Primary School got an early Christmas present when it was guaranteed $5 million to rebuild its ageing complex.

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But the money will only come if the Liberals and Nationals win next month’s Victorian election.

Shadow Education Minister Brad Rowswell and The Nationals candidate for Murray Plains, Brett Hosking, were in Lancaster on Friday October 9 to announce the funding.

The school has already received $500,000 to complete a design of the proposed upgrade, so the project is shovel ready – and now the Liberals Nationals say they are guaranteeing the money to get the job done.

Mr Rowswell said in the past few years the school has been struggling to get enough money to repair its fencing, let alone upgrade its very dated facilities.

“Lancaster, and nearby Kyabram, have become a significant growth corridor in recent years but have been ignored by the Victorian Labor government – and local schoolchildren are paying the price,” Mr Rowswell said.

“This is a region on the march, and as usual Labor is totally out of step with what the people of Victoria need,” he added.

“What we would like to see, what the people of Lancaster want, and what all regional Victorians need, is a government which represents all the people, not just the voters in Melbourne.

“When you look at the billions of dollars poured into the Big Bill and the pockets of the CFMEU and then you arrive in Lancaster and see this little school of young Victorians trying to get a fair go with their education you know the government has failed them all.”

Mr Hosking said news a Liberals and Nationals government will deliver for Lancaster where the government has failed is a familiar story across regional Victoria.

“Regional Victorians make up 25 per cent of our state’s population, yet we have barely received 12 per cent of major infrastructure investment,” he said.

“Those numbers don’t add up, and that’s why The Nationals have their Fair Share Guarantee, which will make sure a minimum of 25 per cent of all Victorian infrastructure spending will be where a quarter of our population lives and works.

“Our schoolchildren should not have the quality of their education determined by their postcode and in regional Victoria that happens too much.”