Page 3826 - Week 13 - Thursday, 18 October 1990
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Ms Follett: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Chief Minister!
MR KAINE: Don't you like the answer to the question?
Ms Follett: Mr Speaker, I will not have members referred to in that way and I ask him to withdraw.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Members, I would draw attention to the fact that in the past we have requested that members be referred to by their surnames. I would ask that this be adhered to in the future.
MR KAINE: Carping Connolly and Whingeing Berry. I do not mind. I have used their last names, if that is important.
MR SPEAKER: Really, Chief Minister!
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I think that is unparliamentary and ought to be withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: It is not unparliamentary; but it is certainly not the desired level we would like to achieve in this chamber, and I would ask all members to refrain from using it in future.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I will stick with the standards established by the Assembly in these matters.
Higgins Primary School
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, my question is addressed to Mr Humphries, and it relates to the closure of Higgins Primary School. Mr Humphries, given that on Mr Kaine's own planners' advice Higgins Primary School will have to be reopened in approximately five years time to cater for the population of the proposed West Belconnen development, why have no figures been presented showing the costs of, firstly, the conversion of the school to community use and, secondly, the reconversion to school use in those few years time?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, first of all, I want to refute the suggestion that there is some advice that we will have to reopen schools in five years time.
Ms Follett: Well, there is.
MR HUMPHRIES: There is no question that at some - - -
Mr Kaine: That is a total misrepresentation. There is no such advice, Ms Follett, and if you were honest you would admit it.
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