Wednesday,
16 July 2025
65 million books down, plenty more to read

July sees the celebrating of two decades of the Premier’s Reading Challenge – an initiative which has nurtured literacy, sparked imagination, and instilled a love of learning in young students across Victoria - as the state's children reach the halfway point of this year's quest.

As of June, one million books have already been read by more than 270,000 school students, with almost 15,000 studen...

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