Page 4188 - Week 14 - Thursday, 25 October 1990
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Mr Moore: Or Rivett, even more so.
MR CONNOLLY: Or Rivett, even more so, as Mr Moore reminds me. It is not optimising safety when you are forcing young children to cross major roads. The other important point in this document is that 1.6 kilometres is the maximum distance for young children to be expected to travel to school. That principle has clearly been abandoned by the Government. In many cases, children will be required to travel over three kilometres.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (5.25): Once again, we have seen the Australian Labor Party members demonstrate in this place that they are prepared to ignore practices to which they have subscribed in the past, ignore processes that they were instrumental in implementing or nurturing, and pretend that the actions of this Government are in some way a new creature, a new creation, the product of our warped designs to destroy neighbourhood schools, education generally and public schooling in the ACT. In this case, the thrust of their attack is to suggest that the ACT Alliance Government is out to destroy the planning principles of Canberra.
I find it curious that they take that kind of approach because it definitely ignores forces that were at work when they were in government - not just federally but also when the Follett Government was in power - and processes of which they were very much a part. I particularly want to refer to Mr Wood's comment that he disagrees with aspects of the ITPA comments.
Mr Wood: No, I did not. I did not.
MR HUMPHRIES: He said that he would take issue with some of the elements. Mr Deputy Speaker, the Hansard will show that Mr Wood said words to the effect that he had differences of view with the ITPA document concerning the way in which it viewed certain proposed school closures.
Mr Moore: It was the terms of reference they had.
Mr Wood: They should have had a wider focus.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Deputy Speaker, I will seek an extension of time if this continues.
Mr Moore: Well, you will not get one.
MR HUMPHRIES: I will get one. Don't you bet on it.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Carry on, Mr Humphries. Address your remarks through the Chair, please, gentlemen.
Mr Connolly: No, you will not.
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