Page 2154 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 29 May 1991
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ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT : SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed.
DR KINLOCH (12.02): Most of my comments will be about the issue which, as I see it, has precipitated the events which we are witnessing today, and that is the matter of the five school sites in Cook, Holder, Hackett, Lyons and Curtin. I want to talk about the sequence, because false statements have been made. We have been working towards saving those sites for many weeks.
Mr Moore: You voted to close them. It is in the minutes.
DR KINLOCH: We have been working towards saving those sites for many weeks.
Mr Moore: Weeks! We have been working for years.
DR KINLOCH: Does Mr Moore wish to have a speech? Is it my speech or Mr Moore's?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Proceed, Dr Kinloch.
DR KINLOCH: We have been working towards saving those sites for many weeks, and I will now go through the sequence. We have Residents Rally members, including executive members, who have been working for the withdrawal of those school site plans.
Mr Moore: They will resign now because they do not need to be there any more.
DR KINLOCH: I am happy that Hansard will be recording this entire speech and I ask Hansard to ignore the interruptions. Secondly, the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment took on the task of looking at the school sites. That is another process, and I wish to pay tribute to Mr Moore for his initiative in that matter. I am glad that the Residents Rally, the Labor Party and Mr Moore joined together in order to do that. That is another area in which we contributed towards saving the school sites.
Thirdly, we have been in direct contact with members of those communities. Fourthly, our annual general meeting passed a motion which asked us to work for the withdrawal of those school site proposals, and I very much respect Mr Connolly's motion on that matter. Fifthly, Mr Collaery and Mr Jensen have done much homework on those school sites. I wish to acknowledge that and I wish to report on what I know, at first hand, about the Rally MLAs in this matter.
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