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Omit all words after “tests; and” in paragraph (1)(a), substitute:

“(b) the vital contributions from parents and teachers in ensuring that our students receive a good education;

(d) the recent failures of the government in its:

(i) heavy-handed handling of the recent efficiency dividend cuts, diminishing support services to students with disabilities, students with English language needs and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students;

(ii) inadequate consultations with stakeholders in key decisions impacting the school community;

(iii) lack of proper support for teachers and principals, which has increased workloads, decreased professional development opportunities and proactive student truancy management measures; and

(iv) insufficient transparency on how future Government plans and initiatives will affect the ACT school community; and

(2) calls on the:

(a) Government to conduct a cost-benefit study into the efficacy of the ACT’s investments in literacy and numeracy;

(b) Government to establish a plan on how it will support teachers to further improve literacy and numeracy amongst ACT students;

(c) Government to provide greater details on how families and schools with be affected as a result of the dividend cuts, and develop a consultation plan with concerned families; and

(d) Minister to report on progress of the matters of action identified in this motion by the last sitting of this year.”.

MR SPEAKER: Members, just for the sake of clarity, we have an amendment now moved by Mr Doszpot. We also have an amendment circulated by Ms Hunter. Because they are quite different and almost counteractive to each other, we will have to deal with one and then the other. So we will deal with Mr Doszpot’s amendment first and then we will deal with Ms Hunter’s amendment subsequently when she moves it. The question is that Mr Doszpot’s amendment be agreed to.

Amendment negatived.

MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Convenor, ACT Greens) (5.40): I move the amendment circulated in my name:

Omit all words after “That this Assembly”, substitute:

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