Parts of a mould-infested high school in Broken Hill in far west New South Wales may need to be demolished. The city council is worried about the school's future, and the impact the mould crisis is having on students. The mayor of Broken Hill, Tom Kennedy says it's a difficult situation.
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00:00 It's going to be really difficult considering a lot of those Year 12s, their schooling life
00:08 has been interrupted by COVID. So this is just another blow to that. And it's not just
00:13 the children at Williama that are going to be affected, but also the Broken Hill High
00:19 School who will be taking on the Williama students and a couple of the primary schools
00:23 who have gratefully offered to help out with the schooling of the Williama students. So
00:30 it's going to affect a lot of the community, a lot of the school kids that go to school
00:35 in Broken Hill, not just Williama students. The big concern for us as a community is that
00:41 they decide to build a new Williama, they pull down the Williama High School and then
00:44 build it big enough to have one high school. We certainly don't want to see Broken Hill
00:49 with one high school. That'll be 1200 kids. We're looking at growing Broken Hill's population
00:54 by five or six thousand dollars, five or six thousand people, considering we've got a number
00:59 of mining operations. So it will be really devastating. We all know that government departments
01:06 will try and save money. So if they're going to build a new high school, they'll try and
01:10 cover those costs on operational costs. We've written off to Chris Minns and asked for a
01:16 guarantee that won't happen and I'm pretty sure that being Labor City, I'm sure the Labor
01:22 government will be very sympathetic to Broken Hill's cause and make sure we continue to
01:26 have two high schools.
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