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Question put:

That the motion, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 16  NOES, 1

Mr Berry Mr Stevenson
Mr Collaery
Mr Connolly
Mr Duby
Ms Follett
Mrs Grassby
Mr Humphries
Mr Jensen
Mr Kaine
Dr Kinloch
Ms Maher
Mr Moore
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

SCHOOL CLOSURES - WEETANGERA PRIMARY SCHOOL

MR WOOD (12.11): Mr Speaker, I move:

That it is the opinion of this Assembly that Weetangera Primary School remain open to continue to provide high quality education.

Mr Speaker, if ever we need an example of the Government's lack of planning and, when forced upon it, its incompetent planning, we need only look at the case of school closures in the ACT. If we want an object lesson in bungling, we look specifically at the planning, or the incompetent planning, around Weetangera Primary School. This is particularly unfortunate since this is a school of excellence where teachers, children and the community as a whole are working enthusiastically to produce an excellent quality education. That progress has been needlessly disrupted by the actions of this Government and by its decisions which are arbitrary, ill-informed and ill-based, and in the end are quite stupid.

I ask Government members to continue to have a close look at the factors operating around that school. On numbers of occasions they have acknowledged that they have not known all the facts when decisions were being made. They have further claimed that not even the education department knew all the data that has subsequently come out. Certainly,

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