Great news for residents in Torquay/Jan Juc.

The CFA, The UFU, Torquay volunteers, Darren Cheeseman and State MPs have agreed to establish a working party to bring an integrated fire station to Torquay.

This facility will have volunteer and career firefighters working together to ensure adequate staffing and keep response times to targets.

Thanks so much to the local community for backing my campaign.

I've had a great response right around the electorate to my petition on schools funding reform.

Labor’s schools reform package is the most significant change to the way our schools are funded in over a generation.

Under the plan, the Federal government will provide two dollars for every dollar of additional funding from the Napthine government. Victorian schools are already hurting due to the Napthine Liberal government’s savage $555 million cut to school education. This funding deal would end the uncertainty about school funding.

I urge Dr Napthine to swallow his pride - as his fellow Liberal state premier Barry O’Farrell has done – and sign up to Labor’s National Plan for School Improvement.

I also call on Tony Abbott to resist the urge to cut education funding to the bone if he’s elected, and agree to honour any education funding agreement reached between State and Federal governments.

Sign my petition at the link below to send a message to Dr Napthine that our schools must be adequately and equitably funded.

http://dcheesemanmp.wufoo.com/forms/z7x3p3/