Page 3125 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
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MR COLLAERY: It is very relevant. Mr Deputy Speaker, I read it into the record again:
If circumstances arise where the educational viability of a school due to significantly declining numbers needs to be examined, we will ensure thorough and genuine consultation with the community, based on -
whatever this means, Mr Deputy Speaker -
recognised procedures. We are serious about our policy of participation. If serious consequences can be clearly demonstrated by a school remaining open, the interests of the ACT must be served.
That was two bob each way from the Labor Party. We have just heard them all deny that that is their policy. I will table this and make it available.
Mr Deputy Speaker, that policy is very little different from the Residents Rally policy drafted by Mr Michael Moore. It said much the same thing. There it is and they do not like it. We are hearing this cacophony of voices. Why has not the Opposition - Mr Moore included - come forward with useful, sensible proposals based on the arguments adduced by the parent groups to support the parent groups? You have only taken political opportunistic lines on these issues. You have left it to the P and C and the parent groups to argue their own cases. You, as an opposition, abandoned them. You just want the political limelight. You do not want to do the homework and assist their case. You are fakes; you are absolute fakes. You have been shown to be fakes. When Mr Humphries appoints a very eminent Australian, as no doubt he is, although Mr Wood assumed it would be a male, from his sexist interjection, when that eminent Australian, he or she, is appointed, it will put a stop to the - - -
Mrs Grassby: "He or she", he said. We were hoping you would make it Dr Frances Perkins. But, no, you could not; she would be too honest.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Grassby! Continue, Mr Collaery.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Deputy Speaker, the Opposition's immediate mockery of this proposed appointment means clearly that they are going to undermine the requests of the parent groups that there be an independent inquiry. They are going to try to undermine the eminent person to be appointed - - -
Mr Berry: On a point of order - - -
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: What is the point of order, Mr Berry?
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