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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (24 September) . . Page.. 3245 ..

Question put:

That the amendment (Mrs Carnell's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

	AYES, 8	 	NOES, 5

	Mrs Carnell	Mr Berry
	Mr Cornwell	Ms McRae
	Mr Humphries	Ms Reilly
	Mr Kaine	Mr Whitecross
	Mrs Littlewood	Mr Wood
	Mr Moore
	Mr Stefaniak
	Ms Tucker

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

MS McRAE (4.26): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to amend my motion by inserting, after the word "parents" in line 4, "and the needs of children whose home circumstances may make the acquisition of literacy skills difficult".

Leave granted.

MS McRAE: I now move:

That this Assembly urge the Minister for Education and Training to add a further Chapter to the discussion paper on literacy currently being distributed for comment; and that this extra material be written so that the needs of children who do not live with their parents and the needs of children whose home circumstances may make the acquisition of literacy skills difficult are also considered and dealt with by way of assistance and policy.

I thank members for allowing me to amend the motion. It is just by way of trying to differentiate a little what I am going to talk about today. The purpose of this motion is simply to bring to members' attention something that at one level may seem quite trivial but at another level leads to some quite complex difficulties with the proposal of the Government in the way that it is dealing with literacy and the whole issue of literacy acquisition within our schools.

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