Page 1832 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 30 May 1990
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MR WOOD: Well, I can accept that. I have seen you standing up here today and you have all been joining in together. I accept that. Clearly the split is between the members of the Residents Rally in this Assembly and such members as remain in that party outside this Assembly. That is where the split is because those people at least have an understanding of education and a realisation of what should be happening in this Territory. One of the things that should be happening is that no school should close.
MR HUMPHRIES: I wish to make a personal explanation, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, Mr Speaker. In the course of her remarks, Ms Follett said that there had been no consultation on the part of the Government with the school community - - -
Ms Follett: No real consultation.
MR HUMPHRIES: Well, I will describe the consultation that has occurred, Mr Speaker, and see whether that constitutes, in her words, "real consultation".
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Humphries is debating the issue. The debate has concluded.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your observation. You are incorrect there, Mr Berry. Please proceed, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I want to indicate that there was real consultation with the school community before the criteria were even launched. I wrote to organisations such as the Canberra Pre-school Society, the ACT Teachers Federation and the Council of Parents and Citizens Associations of the ACT asking for suggestions on ways in which the Government might tackle budget problems, including the education budget.
Mr Berry: He is debating the issue, Mr Speaker. He has not been misrepresented.
MR HUMPHRIES: I am answering a point raised inaccurately by Ms Follett in the course of debate.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry, please desist. Mr Humphries, please get to the point.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, the misrepresentation was that there was no consultation. I want to table the following letters:
Budget priorities for education in the ACT - Copies of letters to Mr Humphries, Minister for Health, Education and the Arts, from -
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