Page 487 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 28 June 1989
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really not a question to which I can give a definitive answer. I think it is a matter of people's personal safety on which really I have had no information.
School Visit
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Can the Minister confirm that he visited the Campbell primary school with Minister Grassby on 26 May? Does the Minister recall seeing a poster on the wall of a classroom that they visited which was shown on Ten News that evening, which carried the following words - apparently they are to be sung to the tune of Neighbours, but I will not attempt to do so now:
Labor, everybody should vote Labor, with a little understanding you'll find they're perfect friends; with Labor you'll get to know each other, that's when you and Labor become good friends.
Mr Speaker, my question is: Can the Minister explain how that poster came to be there? What action did he take on seeing it? What steps will the Minister be taking to ensure such posters never appear again in any primary school in the Territory?
MR WHALAN: There were three questions, with the third one being a multiple question. The answer to the first is no; the answer to the second is no; and, in relation to the poster, I did not see it, but it sounds like a Liberal Party conspiracy.
Public Housing
DR KINLOCH: My question is directed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. The Housing Trust recently demolished dwellings in Condamine Street, Turner, and erected five new dwellings. Indeed, I enjoyed seeing the opening of those, and I thank you for that invitation. Is the Minister aware that when the residents moved into the premises recently the sewage overflowed in each yard - forgive me for mentioning this after lunch - and that the occupants were given emergency housing in motels and fed at the Pancake Parlour? Will the Minister ascertain whether this incident arose from uncoordinated medium-density infill operations by the Housing Trust?
MRS GRASSBY: I did not know that, but I will look into it. I am just very sorry I was not living there because I would like to have gone to the Pancake Parlour. But I will get back to the member after taking the question on notice.
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