Page 1457 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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going to happen? You are going to get that proposal on your desk very soon if you have not already got it.
On a number of occasions the Chief Minister has noted that the section 19 development is an important component in the development of Canberra. Perhaps he has changed his mind on that as well, but that is my reading of what he said.
Mr Kaine: My mind is focused on many things, Bill.
MR WOOD: Thank you, at least. I wonder when you will change your mind on that one too. What is going to happen when the recommendations come across on section 19? Is this going to go backwards and forwards again and around for ever until some hopeful developer walks away in disgust? We do need this. The problems are emerging. I do not have to tell you what they are. We have all been briefed over the year on them. But we do need some signs from the Government.
Where are the positive statements in this document? I can see "encourage" over and over again and a lot of words of that nature. Someone has used a thesaurus and pulled out all the words that mean the same as "encourage". Where are the clear, precise statements of what this Government is doing, the projects that you are now planning or which you have long since planned to cater for all those young people now leaving our institutions in greater numbers? Where is something specific about that? No, it is not there. You have not even thought about it. We have nice rhetoric in this but we have no positive actions.
I was going to spend more time on the question of the fourth of their four points. I will raise this next matter - realising the capital assets of the Territory - in an education speech tonight or tomorrow. In short, that is a euphemism for "sell our schools". That is what that means. I would have hoped that you might have been honest in what you said.
Mr Jensen: Like the Federal Government is trying to do with Gowrie, Bill.
MR WOOD: That is one place, and it has not got the significance of a school. If you want to sell our schools, why do you not write it into your document? I will have more to say about that in a speech shortly.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (8.56): Labor, Mr Speaker, is desperate to paint an image of certain things about the budget direction that the Chief Minister has clearly announced. It does so because it, to some extent, needs to feel that it has some direction of its own, that it has some legacy of its own, that it wishes or needs to protect. I can understand that. I can see that the Labor Party, now in opposition, is feeling a little bit sore and bruised. It can see certain strong directions, notwithstanding what Mr Wood has said, emerging
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