Page 4086 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 24 October 1990
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That seems to be something that the Residents Rally members of the Government have forgotten and turned their back on, even though they pretend to be doing something else. It continues:
The ACT branch of the Labor Party condemns the Alliance Government -
and all its factions -
for its decision to close neighbourhood schools. This decision shows total contempt for the educational needs of students, disregard for local communities and a lack of understanding of a central role that neighbourhood schools play in the social infrastructure of the Canberra community.
That is what these people stand for.
Mr Duby: Wayne, who wrote that, you or Sue?
MR BERRY: This Minister is good at his throw-away lines. All he is concerned about is the old snout in the trough; he is not interested in the future of schools in the Territory. The policy continues:
The Labor Party gives notice that on return to Government in 1992 it will impose a betterment tax of 200% on any school site made vacant by decisions of the Alliance Government -
and I include after that, "and all its factions".
Mr Speaker, this touchy lot opposite ought to be touchy, particularly the Residents Rally faction, because they are the ones who are responsible for the closures of the schools; they are the ones who are pretending that they are something which they are not; and they are the ones who are trying to mislead the people of places like Weetangera about the future of their school and what the Residents Rally will do in respect of schools.
Mr Speaker, the fact of the matter is, and I continue:
With the support and agreement of the school community and teaching unions Labor will reopen any school that the Alliance Government has closed, providing that the school building remains -
and that seems to be pretty important -
and will return multi-campus schools to individual school status.
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