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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (5 November) . . Page.. 3649 ..

LITERACY - DISCUSSION PAPER

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Training): Mr Speaker, on 24 September 1997 the Assembly passed a motion requesting an addition to the discussion paper on literacy currently in circulation. I am pleased to advise the Assembly that the resolution has been effected. I now seek to have the applicable departmental circular minute and the mailing list incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

Documents incorporated at Appendix 3.

PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, in answer to Mr Hird in question time today, the Minister for Urban Services, Mr Kaine, suggested that Mr Wood had led a delegation of Gungahlin Community Council members to a meeting in his office in relation to bus services in Gungahlin. Mr Speaker, I have checked with my colleague and he at no stage has led a delegation of members of the Gungahlin Community Council to Mr Kaine's office. I would like to explain to the Assembly that I have led such a delegation. I would also like to point out to the Assembly that Mr Kaine suggested that I pretended that I did represent my electorate. I would like to assure Mr Kaine that at all stages I do represent the interests of my electorate, which is precisely the reason why I led a delegation of members of the Gungahlin Community Council to his office about the appalling lack of bus services at Gungahlin.

Mr Speaker, I make one final point. Mr Kaine, in his answer, was not able to give any assurance about solving problems with bus services in Gungahlin. All he said was, "We know about them - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! This is not a personal explanation.

MR CORBELL: Perhaps Mr Kaine is only pretending to be a Minister.

MR SPEAKER: That is not a personal explanation.

Mr Kaine: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. When Mr Corbell protests so much and says he does not, does he mean that he does not pretend, or that he does not represent? Which?

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