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Remainder of the Bill, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
MOTOR TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
Debate resumed from 20 February 1990, on motion by Mr Duby:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (10.48): I wish to explain to the house that this Bill was debated concurrently with the Motor Vehicles (Dimensions and Mass) Bill on 20 February.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
EDUCATION
Ministerial Statement and Paper
Debate resumed from 3 May 1990, on motion by Mr Humphries.
That the Assembly takes note of the following paper:
Education - Ministerial statement, 21 March 1990.
MR MOORE (10.49): It gives me a great deal of pleasure to be able to comment on an educational statement at this stage when education is clearly of so much interest to the community of Canberra. One of the things that is most interesting to me is that the ministerial statement on education reflects the attitude of the Alliance Government in its approach. Its approach starts with some preamble, which is mostly historic, followed by the ACT budget. Its approach follows the standard procedure of determining how much money you have and then looking to see what you are going to do about education within that area.
What is wrong with the approach of determining what you want to achieve and then attempting to work out the amount of money you have available? We see very little in the start of this statement about the quality of education. Certainly, in the third paragraph the Minister talks about the ACT school system being the most highly evolved. He says that the Government appreciates the excellence of the system, on which it will seek to build. But there is no attempt to qualify or quantify that excellence, and I am
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