Seven New Schools and Thousands of New Jobs for South East Queensland
Source: Queensland. Treasurer and Minister for Employment and Economic Development. Media Release
"Seven new state schools will be built in high-growth areas of South EastQueensland and will generate thousands of new jobs following theawarding of a $1.1 billion dollar contract under the QueenslandGovernment's landmark SEQ Public Private Partnership (PPP) Schools project. Treasurer Andrew Fraser said the successful Aspire Schools consortium would design, build and maintain six new primary schools and one new high school in the rapidly-growing Sunshine Coast, Western Corridor, theGold Coast and Redlands regions."This PPP project will benefit families and taxpayers by helping tofast-track the building of these schools, while locking in maintenance funding for 30 years," Mr Fraser said."