Page 3823 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 16 October 1991
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MR WOOD: The funds will be provided, and I believe that they will be quite adequate in terms of the usual formula. If the enrolments at Waramanga campus increase, then the formula applies. There are more teachers requiring more funds. There will be some appropriate adjustment at Holder, if that is where those children are coming from.
The way the two campuses are to operate next year is obviously a matter of some debate now within the Education Department. I have already had some discussions with my department about that and I have rostered a meeting either next week or the week after, again with departmental officers as well as the principals of those schools, to see that the arrangements next year are the best we can do for the students.
MRS NOLAN: I ask a supplementary question. Mr Wood, you referred to resources in terms of teaching staff, but I also want to know about the buildings. Certainly, in terms of the Holder building, there are some works that will need to be carried out if that building is to stay open for another 12 months.
MR WOOD: Yes, that is in train. That again is a matter of importance. What needs to be done to ensure good physical surroundings and sometimes the occupational health of the people using that building is noted.
Mrs Nolan: What a waste of money!
MR WOOD: It will be done. We have not wasted money by putting in demountables for a very short space of time on one campus and then taking them out again later on.
Superannuation
DR KINLOCH: My question is to the Chief Minister in her role as Treasurer. I understand that the policy of the ALP is to ensure superannuation for all workers, especially to right the situation where many workers may have gone for some time without superannuation. The current ACTCOSS magazine has an article about that, which is very interesting, as that magazine always is. I ask the Chief Minister about those workers who work in the context of the ACT Government and Legislative Assembly, including MLAs. We are workers, in that context, who do not at the moment have superannuation. What plans are in train to ensure that we are treated with social justice?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Dr Kinloch for a rather convoluted question. I think the issue Dr Kinloch is searching for here is: When are MLAs going to get superannuation? I gather that that was the question. It was hedged about by a barrier of verbiage, but I suspect that that is the issue. All I can say at this point, as I am sure members
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