Page 3024 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 August 1990
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Mr Kaine: In that case I will continue speaking, Mr Speaker, if that is Mr Berry's attitude.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Chief Minister. I am sorry, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, surely common sense can prevail. Why do you not withdraw that and let us allow common sense to prevail?
Mr Kaine: I am quite happy to defer to Mr Moore and continue my comments after Mr Moore has finished speaking, if that is the wish of this Assembly.
Mr Berry: I want to hear him close off the debate.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I ask you to - - -
Mr Berry: I withdraw it.
School Closures
MR MOORE (5.20): Thank you, Chief Minister, for your graciousness; you, Mr Berry, for your application of commonsense; and yourself too, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, I would like to raise a couple of issues to do with schools. One of them has to do with a comment that reportedly Ms Maher made to people from one of the schools. It suggested that one of the reasons she could not vote as Dr Kinloch did with great courage yesterday, even though she is opposed to school closures, was that from then on the decision would be definite and final and - - -
Mr Duby: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: that is a clear inference that Ms Maher is opposed to school closures.
MR MOORE: I withdraw any inference that Ms Maher is opposed to school closures. There is certainly no evidence. I withdraw it.
Let me just say that there is an in-principle concept that once a vote is taken in the Assembly it may well bind the Government to something, but it does not bind it for all time. It only binds the Government until such time as another vote is taken and there is a change of climate or a change of attitude. I think for anybody, who shall remain nameless, to suggest such a thing would be to mislead the people it was being said to.
I have been asked to ask a question on the matter of school closures; but, question time not being here, I will present this as a possibility and perhaps Mr Humphries might, at some stage or another, deal with it. It is in relation to the transfer of students. We wonder whether the receiving schools are appropriately protected in terms of fire
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