Page 354 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 19 February 1991
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MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I stand by the ratio. My advice, as given to this Assembly, and the advice that I received from my department, was that there were two teachers for a composite class of 36 students, making a ratio of one teacher per 18 students. I stand by that advice.
MR WOOD: I have a supplementary question. Will the Minister, in order to protect his reputation, go back and check the information he got and, if needs be, come back with the precise points allocation - in the way that points are allocated to schools - applying to that class, and verify his statement? If he is wrong, he can make an apology; and, if I am wrong, I will make an apology.
MR HUMPHRIES: That is an offer too good to resist, Mr Speaker. I will, of course, check the facts that I have brought to this Assembly and, if they are wrong, I will, as I have always done, correct them and, if Mr Wood requires, I will apologise for having misled the Assembly. But I repeat: My advice is that there are two teachers for a class of 36, and that makes a ratio of one teacher per 18 students, and if that is - - -
Mr Wood: Yes, and the assumption is that they are there all the time.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Wood's assertion is that, because the teacher leaves the room from time to time, two teachers are not there on a full-time basis. If he argues that that disproves the point I made, I would reject that; but obviously, Mr Speaker, I am prepared to consider what Mr Wood has said and see whether he is right.
Jindalee Nursing Home
MR BERRY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister, Mr Kaine. I refer the Chief Minister to the Interim Territory Planning Authority's draft proposal to rezone the land on which the Jindalee Nursing Home is now situated from community facilities, to allow for medium density residential development. Chief Minister, why are town houses being proposed for the Jindalee site before the detailed plans for its relocation have been made available?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I do not know, but I will take the question on notice.
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