For years, families in regional NSW were told to wait — wait for school upgrades, wait for preschool places, wait for governments to finally take public education seriously.
Now, under the Minns Labor Government, Tamworth is actually seeing delivery.
The new public preschool at Hillvue Public School is exactly the kind of investment regional families have needed for years: practical, affordable and focused on giving children the best possible start in life. For local parents, it means access to high-quality, fee-free early learning close to home. For children, it means a stronger start before they even walk into kindergarten.
And this is not a one-off. Hillvue is one of the first of 100 new public preschools Labor is rolling out across NSW, with nearly half in regional communities. That is a serious commitment to country families after more than a decade of neglect from the former Liberal-National Government, which somehow managed to oversee growing communities without building the public early learning infrastructure families actually needed.
Tamworth High School is also benefiting from major upgrades, showing this is part of a broader commitment to rebuild public education from preschool right through to high school.
This is what investment in regional communities should look like — not ribbon-cutting politics, but real public infrastructure that actually improves people’s lives.
Tamworth families deserve nothing less.
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