Illawarra girl switches schools after being knocked back for bus pass

Glen Humphries
Updated November 13 2018 - 9:05pm, first published 5:56pm
Big move: Nine-year-old Sienna Schubert had to switch schools in order to get a Opal bus pass because her mother couldn't afford the bus fares. Picture: Adam McLean
Big move: Nine-year-old Sienna Schubert had to switch schools in order to get a Opal bus pass because her mother couldn't afford the bus fares. Picture: Adam McLean

The battle to get a school bus pass proved so stressful for one mother that her nine-year-old had to switch schools so she would qualify.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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