Page 2819 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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Another thing I find most disturbing about the school closures is the number of schools that were closed in areas where no Government members opposite live. Now I think that is more than coincidental.
Mr Collaery: That is outrageous.
Mr Kaine: You will stop at nothing, any lie, any innuendo will do.
MR BERRY: Well, I say that it is more than coincidental.
Mr Kaine: You are a crook. I withdraw that, Mr Acting Speaker.
MR BERRY: That was a quick recovery there by the Chief Minister. The fact of the matter is that that is what has happened. No matter which way you look at it, the school closures occurred in areas where Government members do not live.
Mr Kaine: I live in a suburb that does not even have a school, and never had one - and your Government did not propose to put one there either.
MR BERRY: I cannot help that. I am talking about school closures.
Ms Maher: My son's school is twinning, and it is a proposal they have been working on for 18 months, Wayne.
MR BERRY: It is not closing though.
Ms Maher: But it is a proposal they have been working on for 18 months.
Mr Humphries: They are prepared to save some money.
MR BERRY: Your school is not closing though, is it?
Mr Humphries: They will admit that there are some benefits in that.
MR BERRY: They get a bit toey. By gee, are we not twitchy once the facts are laid on the table? We get very twitchy.
Mr Kaine: You do not like interjections, do you, but you do not mind when somebody else is talking.
MR BERRY: I do not mind them at all. I like to hit the nerve ends because - especially this - - -
Mr Kaine: Look at the nerve ends. Look at you, react to every interjection.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order, members!
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