Page 3498 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 19 September 1990
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For tourism nationally the benefit in dollar terms could have been in many billions of dollars, and for the ACT many millions of dollars. The contribution sport makes to tourism, both Australia-wide and here in the ACT, is enormous. However, in the ACT I believe sport has not been fully explored to date in enabling visitors to come and visit their national capital. The Australian Institute of Sport is a facility owned by all Australians and makes a wonderful contribution to the ACT, but there are other areas that could be better explored. A couple of the areas that I do particularly want to mention, though, are the two sporting teams and I refer, of course, to the Raiders and the Cannons. I should take this opportunity to congratulate both teams for their great performances last weekend, and especially to wish the Raiders well in their grand final bid this coming weekend.
Mr Deputy Speaker, I go back to the Olympic Games 1996. As I said earlier, I share Melbourne's disappointment and I am sure every Australian and every Canberran shares that disappointment. Congratulations, though, should go on record to Atlanta, Georgia. Australia may not have won the bid for the 1996 Olympic Games but I know that the ACT and Canberra will give unequivocal support to a bid for the year 2000. While 34 years ago saw the Olympic Games in Melbourne, the southern hemisphere will, I believe, definitely see them again, and the year 2000 has to be the date now.
Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School
DR KINLOCH (5.07): Mr Deputy Speaker, may I first declare an interest. My wife, Lucy, taught for one year in 1967 at Canberra Girls Grammar and I joined her there, on a voluntary basis, to teach a sixth form - I suppose we would now say year 12 - history course. She was a colleague there of one of her own teachers who had been a teacher at an Anglican school in Singapore. So, we have had a long-time interest in that school. I favour both secular and church schools, government and non-government schools. May they all exist and thrive.
I come to the question, though, about whether that school, Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School, can be described as "wealthy and/or rich". If we compare these schools with schools in Ethiopia, then, of course, all our schools are rich. I do not doubt that some parents are well-off, but may I stress that over three-quarters of the parents who are currently sending their boys and girls there - there are boys in the kindergarten and year 1 - both work, many of them to pay fees, of course. The reason many of them are working is to be able to afford the $2,600 at the minimum, and much more at the maximum, a year for a child at that school.
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