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Deputy Mayor Gordon Wragge, CEO Chatur Zala and Mayor Bruce Simpson with Minister Fiona Simpson on Friday (Photo: CASC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 21, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Buwu program at Cherbourg State School will receive a $3 million boost from the State Government’s Closing the Gap Priority Fund.<\/p>\n

Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Fiona Simpson and Member for Nanango, Attorney-General Deb Frecklington, visited Cherbourg on Friday to make the announcement, which coincided with National Closing The Gap Day.<\/p>\n

The Buwu program is an alternative to school for students suspended for disciplinary reasons.<\/p>\n

It allows students to keep up with the school curriculum while at the same time learning positive behaviour strategies.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the classes are being held in a donga – described by Minister Simpson as a “bit of a shed” – away from the school.<\/p>\n

The funding will allow a new building to be constructed at Cherbourg State School to house the program.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Minister Simpson told Cherbourg councillors this was an example of the State Government redirecting funding away from the axed Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry.<\/p>\n

“I know that there has been some heartfelt concerns around what was a policy we brought forward, where we were clear we were going to take the funding from the Truth-Telling Inquiry and redirect it to frontline services,” she said.<\/p>\n

“This is an example … I absolutely support people telling their stories and having the heart to know the stories and the truth, the good, the bad, the beautiful and also the painful.<\/p>\n

“People need to know the stories; they need to know the truth.<\/p>\n

“That will go on but it won’t be with be with lawyers. It will be respecting the stories that you have in your community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“But the funding from that was quite substantial and we’ve got communities that don’t have water, running water.”<\/p>\n

Minister Simpson said education was one of the frontline needs which would help to Close The Gap.<\/p>\n

She said there would be more than $100 million now that was would be available to go to “frontline, measurable, tangible outcomes; shovel-ready (projects) … in areas such as health, such as education, such as housing”.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Simpson, Minister Simpson, Attorney General Deb Frecklington and Cherbourg State School principal Boyd McLean on Thursday (Photo: Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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