Page 1670 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; this gentleman, Mr Berry, is persistently and wilfully ignoring your instructions. I refer you to standing order 202.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your observation. Please desist, Mr Berry.
MR KAINE: We had a performance some time ago because they did not want me to present the report of the Priorities Review Board. I think that if they had bothered to - - -
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order on relevance.
MR SPEAKER: It is overruled. Please proceed, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: I am attempting to get the approval of the Assembly to present some Government business. This is the second time this afternoon that the Opposition has attempted to prevent Government business going ahead. I have presented the comprehensive report of the Priorities Review Board on the way ahead for the ACT Administration. I would now like to present a report on the way ahead for technical and further education, but it sounds to me as though the members opposite, despite their high-sounding words about their commitment to education and the like, do not want to know what should be done in terms of technical and further education.
This report has been compiled by a working party consisting of trade union representatives and student representatives from the TAFE system, among others. These people have come up with a very reasoned report that recommends the way ahead for our TAFE system. I submit, Mr Speaker, that the members opposite ought to be very interested in this. To deny me the opportunity to present it so that it can then lie on the table and lead to public discussion - - -
Mr Connolly: Present it after the censure motion, as every other Chief Minister in every other parliament would do.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Connolly, please desist.
MR KAINE: We are back to that feeding time again, Mr Speaker.
I submit that we have here a clear refusal on the part of the Opposition to deal with matters of major importance to this community. I hear a lot of yapping about a censure motion. I do not hear any scream from the community out there for such a motion.
Mr Connolly: Read the Canberra Times editorial on Saturday, Trevor; you have never seen one like that, have you?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Connolly, I warn you. No more outbursts please.
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