Page 2613 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 8 August 1990
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Mr Wood: You have to go a long way away, haven't you? This is not very impressive. Why don't you quote me?
MR HUMPHRIES: If I am interrupted any more I will seek an extension of time, Mr Wood, so just be on notice. Mr Field said:
Structural changes at any time are very difficult, given the nature of Tasmania, the community that we are and the lack of structural changes in the past. But given the need for structural changes in the future, if we are to have efficient use of the scarce resources of government - which are becoming scarcer - we have to make decisions about the structure that governs us and the administration of that structure.
I think that those words are extremely clear. Now one person inside the chamber whose name I forget seems to believe that I am going rather far afield with quotes of that kind. Let us go to a member of the Australian Labor Party talking about the Australian Capital Territory. Here is someone else talking about school closures:
Closing schools is not a way to court popularity anywhere, but the Authority -
and he is talking about the Schools Authority -
has gone about it in the right spirit, by consulting the local people, professionals who run its schools as well as planners ... The task force has produced a practical report, with proposals for reorganisation that should cause minimal short-term inconvenience.
That was for closing five schools, I should point out.
The community and its schools can only gain in the long run from the greater efficiency of operation that is involved. Once again, the ACT has set a national example.
That was Mr John Brown MP, when he was Minister for the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories. The man responsible in 1987 - - -
Mr Moore: John Brown! Are you quoting John Brown?
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Wood): Order, Mr Moore! You cannot interject from a place other than your own.
MR HUMPHRIES: Thank you, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker. John Brown is the man responsible, with his colleagues over a period of time, for a number of school closures in this Territory and those closures were engineered by the Australian Labor Party.
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