Page 941 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 27 March 1990
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Employers may be confusing lack of experience with lack of skills. This may be viewed as a discriminatory practice if experience is not a bona fide qualification for the job. On the other hand, students surveyed perceived that school did not prepare them well - and I stress this, Mr Wood - for the world of work and, consequently, may have underestimated the importance of experience in the workplace. This survey produced a range of valuable information.
I believe that if the Education Department is committed to long-term outcomes there must be an appropriate balance between what we seek out of education in intellectual and sensitising terms, in terms of the individual, and in terms of the short-term achievements that our youngsters are seeking and, in the measure outlined in this survey report, in which they are being disappointed. Any of us who has had a youngster at home looking for a job in these troubled times, and being depressed as a result, could well understand the vital urgency about the need to ensure that our youth affairs portfolio, our employment functions and the income support of the Federal Government are fully linked, to ensure that that percentage of youngsters for whom the outcome has not been happy is improved.
Ms Follett: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; standing order 213. Mr Collaery quoted a psychiatrist's report at the beginning of his comments. I ask that the Assembly order that that paper be presented.
MR SPEAKER: He did not quote from it.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I was not holding a psychiatrist's report. I referred - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! You do not have leave to speak, Mr Collaery. That objection is overruled.
Mr Moore: That is the Assembly's decision.
MR SPEAKER: Sorry, I withdraw that. It is the Assembly's decision. Is that 213, Ms Follett?
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, on that point of order raised by Ms Follett, standing order 213 says "A document - - -
Mr Whalan: Gee, you are lucky to have such advice, Mr Speaker.
Ms Follett: Does he have leave to speak?
Mr Humphries: I am entitled to speak to the point of order, Mr Speaker, before you make a ruling, and that is what I am doing.
Mr Whalan: You are very lucky, Mr Speaker, to have such advice here.
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