Page 2693 - Week 09 - Thursday, 9 August 1990
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MR HUMPHRIES: I will come to that point; I think Ms Maher has raised a very good point. The fact is that the Government gave every opportunity for school communities to put points of that kind to the Government and every one of those points was taken into account. To say that they were ignored is simply garbage.
Members interjected.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Acting Speaker, may I have some silence in these questions?
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order!
MR HUMPHRIES: Unpalatable as it may be to those opposite, the fact is that the talents and the energies of parents at schools like Hackett do not disappear merely because the school itself has closed. If those parents can and do move to other schools, they contribute positively to those other schools. That was the experience in the closures pattern at the end of 1988 and in previous years, and it will happen again.
AIDS Education Posters
MS MAHER: I refer my question to the Minister for Finance and Urban Services and I refer - - -
Ms Follett: You always ask him; ask him at home.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order, let us hear the question!
MS MAHER: I refer to an article in today's Canberra Times. It concerns AIDS education posters appearing on the sides of ACTION buses and it claims that the Minister was opposed to the concept of the campaign and insisted on changing the wording of the message. Is this report accurate?
MR DUBY: Yes, I have seen the article in today's Canberra Times which refers to the launching of an AIDS education program advertising campaign on the sides of buses. The Canberra Times reports that the message had to be changed because of an objection by myself to the message. It quotes:
First of all, he wanted to ban the whole concept, but ended up simply insisting on changing the wording of the message ...
The simple fact is that nothing could be further from the truth. I support, entirely, the whole concept of AIDS education programs, safe sex programs and programs which highlight the need for healthy practices, particularly in relation to the use of drugs. If anything, when the advertising poster was brought to me I expressed complete
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