Page 4435 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 21 November 1990
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MR KAINE (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (4.29): Mr Speaker, sometimes the piety of the people opposite takes my breath away. All that has happened is that a program set in place three years ago by a Federal Labor government, and pursued by the Follett Labor Government last year, has simply been furthered this year.
There is not a thing that the Leader of the Opposition said about the importance of the TAFE system that anybody in this room would argue about. It goes without saying that we acknowledge the importance of TAFE in the system, and the kinds of things that it does and the kinds of courses that it delivers. But the fact is that TAFE was identified as being one of those areas which were overfunded, and the Federal Labor Government and the Follett Labor Government both took steps to reduce the expenditure in that area - and we have taken it one stage further. One of the things that we have done is to put TAFE onto triennial funding, under an agreement with it under which it increases its funding from sources other than the Government. In exchange we guarantee, over a three-year period, a level of funding.
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order, Chief Minister! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Humphries: I require the question to be put forthwith, without debate, Mr Speaker.
Question resolved in the negative.
APPROPRIATION BILL 1990-91
[COGNATE PAPER:
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDING COMMITTEE - REPORT ON NEW CAPITAL WORKS PROGRAM 1990-91]
Detail Stage
Debate resumed.
MR KAINE: The Government is well aware of the fact that expenditures from the public purse in the TAFE system have to be reduced. I do not think that anybody could tell me that the excellence of the service delivered by TAFE is being diminished in any way. They are getting their operation under a high degree of management control. They are seeking funding from sources other than the Government.
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