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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (11 November) . . Page.. 3973 ..

MS McRAE (6.19): I want to commend Mr Moore, and I cannot resist making the point that it just shows how impossible it is to measure literacy. We all read it; it all made sense; it all flowed through; it all had logic; and did we notice it? No. It took Mr Moore, on his third reading or whatever, to notice it. It is a really interesting side issue. First of all, what a range of different skills we all have in literacy - what we do and what we do not notice - and how important it is to have people like Mr Moore about, in the absence of Ms Szuty, to pick up these things. It is a rare and extraordinary skill for someone to notice absolutely everything. I confess that if I were ever tested on that I would fail. Thank you, Mr Moore, and we will be happy to support this amendment.

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Training) (6.20): Congratulations, Mr Moore. The Government is happy to support it as well. I do not think I have seen anything better since I noticed a decimal point relating to the Racecourse Development Fund in the wrong place. It was 7.5 per cent when it should have been 0.75 per cent. Well done!

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

Amendments (by Mr Stefaniak, by leave) agreed to:

Page 10, line 28, clause 21, subclause (1), omit "An educational institution, or a person on behalf of an educational institution", substitute "A recognised educational institution, or a person on behalf of a recognised educational institution".

Page 12, line 27, clause 26, paragraph (2)(b), omit "college", substitute "recognised educational institution".

Page 13, line 11, clause 27, paragraph (3)(b), omit the paragraph, substitute the following paragraph:

"(b) be lodged within 1 month after the day specified by the Board as the day on which the certificate that is the subject of the application would have been issued.".

Remainder of Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

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