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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1995 Week 8 Hansard (25 October) . . Page.. 1986 ..

MR KAINE (continuing):

The way you fix this is that you put the word on the Government to continue the subsidy". "That is the way you fix it", said Mr Berry and Ms McRae. Up until that point the community knew the options open to them. They were working their way through it, which is what we believe the community should do, and what I understood was what the Labor Party thought the community should do when they were in government. Hence the fact that Mr Wood - - -

Ms McRae: You were not there. You do not know what you are talking about.

MR KAINE: Can you keep the chooks quiet, or will I throw them a bunch of wheat, Mr Speaker?

MR SPEAKER: I think you are doing very well, Mr Kaine. Continue.

MR KAINE: Only a couple of years ago we saw the then Minister, Mr Wood, graciously acceding to the requirement of the P and C of the Griffith Primary School that their school should reluctantly close. Is it not amazing how things change? Today we have them coming along here and saying what a terrible thing this is. I even heard the fascinating comment from Ms McRae on public radio this morning that the need for these children to get on a public bus and go to another school was a nightmare. All I can say is that there are thousands of children in this Territory who get on a bus every day and go to school, and not too many of them find it to be much of a nightmare.

Ms McRae: You tell those parents that. You were not there.

MR KAINE: I have a child - - -

Ms McRae: I do not care about your children. You tell those parents.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, will you keep the chooks quiet? I am not into a debate with Ms McRae.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Kaine has the floor.

Mr Berry: Somebody louder than you for a change, Trevor.

MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry!

MR KAINE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have a child who goes on a bus to a school that her mother and I chose that she should go to and that is out of area. She takes the bus to school every day and she gets it from the Woden interchange. She does not find it a nightmare, I do not find it a nightmare, and her mother does not find it a nightmare. I find incredible the emotion that these people will put into an argument, anything at all - - -

Ms McRae: You go and tell those parents that.

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