Page 4389 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 21 November 1990
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With reference to the Residents Rally policy that Dr Kinloch put up, I will draw his mind back to what we meant when we said that we considered the school community. He knows, as he will recall, I am sure, that we were talking about the individual school community. I certainly agree with him about the significance of the size of school and how much more beneficial small schools are, with reference to younger children. At no stage, of course, did we see in the joint party room information any arguments about the advantages of small schools. Instead, what you get is disadvantages of small schools.
Furthermore, the P and C council, after Hugh Hudson brought down his report, suggested to this Government an option E, which provided a tremendous number of compromises that would take a positive approach and encourage the growth of the smaller primary schools. They put it out in a press release. I do not have time to go through it, which I would normally have done. However, the point was that there was a positive approach. There was always the option of a positive approach, but this negative Government has taken a negative approach on this particular issue of funding in schools. They have a negative approach. They have got a negative reaction, and that negative reaction will continue from the community.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (12.22): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to suspend so much of standing orders as would prevent Dr Kinloch speaking for a further three minutes in this debate.
Mr Wood: We have an agreement.
MR HUMPHRIES: Well, we had an agreement to stop at 12.20.
Mr Wood: Can we extend?
Mrs Nolan: Yes, we can. Yes.
Mr Collaery: We will suspend.
Mr Wood: Okay, we go to the vote.
Mr Collaery: Yes.
MR HUMPHRIES: I move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Dr Kinloch, who had already spoken, from again addressing the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
DR KINLOCH (12.23): Mr Speaker, I apologise for the great length of time I was taking. It was a long argument that I was involved with, and I will try now to sum it up without reference to notes. What I was leading to was this: whatever may have happened up to the point of the Hudson
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