Page 4131 - Week 14 - Thursday, 25 October 1990
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MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I do not think the question deserves an answer.
MR MOORE: I ask a supplementary question. On the matter of lack of policies on welfare, youth, justice administration and maintenance of law and order, does the Alliance Government, then, intend, at some stage or another, to present policies in these areas - or are we just going to let Mr Collaery work on the basis of how he feels at the minute?
MR KAINE: I will take that question on notice, Mr Speaker, but I suspect that our policies will be just as comprehensive as those under which the previous Labor Administration worked for seven months on all those issues.
Higher School Certificate Examinations - Canberra Grammar School Students
MRS GRASSBY: My question is directed to Mr Humphries. Will the Government be subsidising students from the Boys Grammar School to sit the New South Wales School Certificate examinations?
MR HUMPHRIES: The answer to that question is yes.
Mr Moore: Oh, shame!
Mr Connolly: Are they going to get a free oval, too?
Mr Kaine: Just like you did last year.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR HUMPHRIES: I indicate that it is the case that in previous years the ACT Government has funded the participation by the Canberra Boys Grammar School in the - - -
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order. If we wanted to ask the Chief Minister a question we would have directed it to him.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry. Mr Humphries, please proceed.
MR HUMPHRIES: The answer is: the Government will be resuming the practice that was the case for a number of years under previous governments, including previous Labor governments, to provide - - -
Mr Wood: Not the Follett Government.
MR HUMPHRIES: That may be the case, but it was certainly the case under previous Labor governments. I take it that those opposite consider the Federal Labor Government to be
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