00:00 For nearly 30 years, Josephine Judge-Rigney has dedicated her working life to the students
00:07 of Warrapindi School.
00:08 A lot of them come from Alice Springs, they come from the north, south, east and west,
00:16 they come from Sojourner, Port Augusta.
00:18 Generations of Aboriginal high school students have been taught here at Marlstone in Adelaide's
00:22 inner west.
00:23 But the campus has to go to make way for the $15.4 billion Torrens to Darlington road upgrade.
00:29 The site at Richmond Road is a postage stamp and at the moment we have around 100 enrolments
00:35 at that site.
00:36 The school will be relocated to the former Tech Inn SA site in Theberton, nearly 4km
00:42 away.
00:43 It'll cost $25 million taken from the Tunnel Project's budget.
00:47 The new school site is bigger and backs onto the River Torrens.
00:51 It's home away from home, you know what I mean, you have the river, you have the flowing
00:57 of the river, the smell in the air compared to where we are.
01:02 It's not often in political careers you can come and do something as amazing as this but
01:06 we have found I think the perfect site.
01:08 Which will allow the school to grow to at least 150 students.
01:13 They've made sure that we've having a lot more classrooms here, especially now with
01:18 the facilities because that was part of the big problem.
01:20 It's going to offer that extra green space that the current site doesn't have.
01:24 The move is set to be completed in time for the start of the 2025 school year before major
01:29 works on the road begin.
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