NEWPORT RAILWAY MUSEUM’S NEW COMENG SIMULATOR CAB

Media Releases, Williamstown electorate

Thursday, 18 December 2025  Member for Williamstown, Melissa Horne visited the Newport Railway Museum to celebrate the addition of a new Comeng simulator cab, a historic piece that will eventually allow participants to see what it was like to drive the trains that travelled through Melbourne in the 1980s and 1990s.   In 1991, the special electronic train simulator was specially commissioned by the Public Transport Corporation and built by Gemco Rail to help…

$1.9 MILLION MAINTENANCE BOOST FOR BAYSIDE COLLEGE P-12

Media Releases, Williamstown electorate

Tuesday, 18 November 2025 Member for Williamstown, Melissa Horne today announced that Bayside College P-12 would be among 46 across the state to share $22.5 million in Planned Maintenance Program funding to prioritise and complete maintenance work on classrooms and facilities.   The schools will use the funding to carry out essential works such as fixing roofs and replacing windows, maintaining ramps, painting, resurfacing floors, or improving pathways.  Bayside has been allocated more than $1.9 million…

KIM RESERVE, LOFT RESERVE, AND LANGSHAWS RESERVE RECEIVE THE AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PRECINCTS GRANTS 2025

Media Releases, Williamstown electorate

Monday, 27 October 2025  HC Kim Reserve in Seaholme, Loft Reserve in Newport, and Langshaws Reserve in Altona North have been named successful applicants of the Air Quality Improvement Precincts Grants 2025 program.     $384,147   has been allocated to seal the rock car parks at the three local ovals, reducing dust pollution in the highly used community areas in the Williamstown electorate.  The Air Quality Improvement Precincts (AQIP) 2025 Grant Round provides Victorian Government funding for…

CELEBRATING OUR VOLUNTEERS

Media Releases, Williamstown electorate

Tuesday, 21 October 2025 Member for Williamstown, Melissa Horne celebrated a significant number of volunteers from across the Williamstown electorate at a special afternoon tea on October 10.  After inviting nominations from local organisations, it was apparent there were dozens of people across the community devoting their time to supporting local causes, advancing the rights of others, or simply helping their…

NEWPORT’S AUSTRALIAN ISLAMIC CENTRE COLLEGE RECIEVES $2.5 MILLION FOR SCHOOL UPGRADES

Media Releases, Williamstown electorate

Friday, 22 August 2025 Member for Williamstown, Melissa Horne joined Deputy Premier and Minister for Education Ben Carroll, and Hobsons Bay City Councillor and Deputy Mayor Rayane Hawli, to announce that the Australian Islamic Centre College (AIC) in Newport will be receiving $2.5 million in funding for school upgrades from The Building Fund for Non-Government…