Page 1089 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 1990
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MR HUMPHRIES: Well, their organisation need not necessarily be 15,000 people who would actually vote on an issue such as that. We all know how the leadership of some organisations can be very different from the grass roots, Mr Wood.
MR WOOD: Yes, and I think Father O'Kelly exemplifies that.
MR SPEAKER: Order, please address your comments through the Chair!
MR HUMPHRIES: I will not enter into debate with Mr Wood on this subject across the floor of the Assembly, Mr Speaker. The fact remains that the concerns raised were fair ones; they are not isolated. Other parents and people in the ACT have expressed those concerns to me. I think they are good concerns, well-expressed.
MR WOOD: I ask a supplementary, Mr Speaker. Would the Minister deny then the principle that he should look at schools in the ACT on a needs basis, and accommodate them in those same sorts of principles that the Federal Government applies?
MR HUMPHRIES: I indicated a few weeks ago that the Government is looking at the question of funding across the board, and it will be looking in particular at the appropriate way of funding non-government education as government education in the ACT. When that review process is concluded, I will be happy to come back and tell Mr Wood what the outcome is and what the Government has decided to do. Until then it would be inappropriate for me to either agree to or rule out particular options at this stage.
Gowrie Hostel Site
MRS NOLAN: My question is to the Chief Minister in his role as Minister for Planning. Is he aware that the Commonwealth Government has now advertised the Gowrie Hostel site for sale by auction?
MR KAINE: Yes, Mr Speaker. I understand that the Commonwealth advertised the Gowrie Hostel site in the newspapers the day before yesterday for sale by auction some time early in May. This is a matter of some concern to the Government because we have made our opinion on that matter quite well known publicly. I am sure that in this case the Opposition would agree with the Government that it is totally inappropriate for the Commonwealth to sell off a property which was inappropriately identified as national land and the property of the Commonwealth in the first place.
I think that members of this Assembly and members of the public may well question why the site was gazetted as national land in the first instance when in only a matter
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