Page 4147 - Week 11 - Thursday, 17 Sept 2009
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Mr Hanson: The community had no concerns at all, did they, Joy?
MS BURCH: It shows that there was broad support for Towards 2020 by the community. Beyond this endorsement of the government’s decision—
Mr Hanson: We heard a lot of that in the 76 submissions.
Mr Corbell: On a point of order, Madam Assistant Speaker: the Liberal Party are adopting a strategy in this place of always interjecting when it is anyone other than themselves speaking.
Mr Seselja: Rubbish! You were interjecting when Ms Bresnan was speaking.
Mr Corbell: Ms Bresnan was heard in relative silence.
Mr Coe: Apart from when you interjected, Simon.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Le Couteur): Members of the opposition, please be quiet now.
Mr Corbell: The Liberal Party are just illustrating my point.
MS BURCH: Can we stop the clock while this continues?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Yes. Stop the clock, please.
Mr Corbell: I ask for a call for order to allow Ms Burch to present her speech on this matter.
Mr Seselja: On the point of order, Madam Assistant Speaker: Mr Corbell was interjecting when Ms Bresnan was speaking. The level of interjection has been relatively mild. He is being overly sensitive. In this place some level of interjection is generally allowed provided the volume does not get over the top and it does not go too far.
Mr Corbell: I could not hear Ms Burch.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I think this has been a good reminder for all members. Ms Burch, please now proceed.
MS BURCH: Thank you. Beyond this endorsement of the government’s decision, this report does little more than recommend a range of reviews on decisions that were made in 2006. The report has 15 recommendations. However, it is just one that asks to reopen schools. Those schools are Hall and Tharwa. After months of committee meetings and hearings, school visits and so on, it is only one recommendation that calls for the immediate reopening of Hall and Tharwa schools.
In reality, what recommendation 13 actually shows is that the opposition parties believe that, of the 23 schools that were closed by the government, only two should be
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