Page 934 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 27 March 1990
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enough reflection of that kind of problem in this report. I would like to raise that problem with the Legislative Assembly and ask that we address it in the years to come.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (9.37): Mr Speaker, I will be very brief. I will ask you to invite Mrs Grassby to leave, and then we will have no Opposition whatsoever. That should be in the record.
MR JENSEN (9.37): I was going to make a similar comment, but the Chief Minister has already indicated that.
Mr Duby: That there is only one member of the Opposition there?
MR JENSEN: Only one member of the Opposition is present at the moment to hear this debate, whereas the Government benches are full.
Mr Duby: And her name is Ellnor Grassby.
MR JENSEN: Mrs Grassby, Mr Duby. I will be appropriately discreet. Before I speak in this very important debate today, I will let Mrs Grassby know that my speech will contain comments that I have prepared and that I will be speaking from notes that I have made, in case she has any worries about it.
Mrs Grassby: You are still going to waste time on a report that you did not even write as a government. What a waste of time.
MR JENSEN: It is interesting that Mrs Grassby is so concerned about the education of our children in the ACT that she is not prepared to have the matter discussed in the Assembly tonight. It is a shame.
I am just about to refer to some comments that Mr Moore made in relation to the culture of service project. During his talk to the Assembly this evening Mr Moore made some comments about the lack of community involvement in the culture of service project that is mentioned at page 37. I want to read some of it into the Hansard record. It is all very well to make these comments, but you have to be very careful that you are not selective in the way that you make them. For example, the third paragraph says:
It will develop a plan by involving all parents, students, schools and sections in discussions about ways of providing the best possible service.
It goes on in the next paragraph to state:
Forming a service strategy, teachers, boards, unions, and parents will be involved in regional and school or section workshops over about 12 to 18 months.
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