Page 1166 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 March 1991
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Stamp Duty Concessions
MS FOLLETT: My question is addressed to Mr Kaine as Treasurer. Mr Kaine, what is the estimated cost to revenue of the stamp duty concessions announced yesterday by Mr Collaery?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I suggest that she address the question to the Minister for Finance, who is responsible for the matter.
School Closures - Task Force on Traffic and Safety
MR MOORE: My question is directed to Mr Duby. Mr Duby, it refers to a question you answered yesterday in relation to the commitment you made to parents of Lyons Primary School students, the commitment on the basis of which they, trusting your word, withdrew the picket on the South Curtin school. In a quite evasive answer yesterday, you stated:
Mr Humphries, in the answer given not 30 seconds ago, advised that meetings have been going on between representatives of my department, his ministry, and parents from the Lyons and Curtin primary schools.
Firstly, Mr Duby, on my reading of the Hansard, Mr Humphries' answer did not advise that at all. Secondly, when you referred to "meetings" - the plural was used - of the task force, were you actually referring to the meeting, singular, held on Tuesday, the 12th of this month, two hours' notice of which had been delivered that morning and at which the group spent a quarter of the time trying to determine whether it was actually the task force or not? Did you intend to mislead the house by using the plural, or was this just an accident; or, are there other meetings which could be construed as task force on safety meetings with the nominees of the parents, the trade unions and the government departments?
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Moore for the question. I must admit that I am a little bit confused; it was so long that I forget where he started. The implication of the question was, of course, that no meeting or meetings, for that matter, have ever occurred. There was a meeting on 12 March.
Mr Moore: No, I considered that one.
MR DUBY: Listen to this. There was such short notice! I will read you a list of the people who attended. From the Lyons school board we had Peter Croker, John Schooneveldt, Sue Jones and Barbie Robinson - all representatives of the Lyons school board and the Lyons P and C Association. From the Curtin Primary School we had Jenny Leeson, Chris Philbrick and Sally Brown, the principal of the school,
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