Page 4225 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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School Closures - Bus Services
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Minister for Education. The Hudson report has stated that a bus service should be provided for children from kindergarten to grade 3 travelling to their new school. How would that service be operated, by whom, and at what cost?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Wood did not mention the school he was referring to.
Mr Wood: From Lyons.
MR HUMPHRIES: He is referring to Lyons.
Mr Wood: In particular.
MR HUMPHRIES: The question of a bus is very important and I would not pretend for one minute that the Government is going to put aside such a recommendation lightly. Whether such a bus service should be provided in the manner suggested by Mr Hudson remains to be seen. I have discussed with the Lyons school and with others in the last few days the implications of that recommendation and I believe it inappropriate to endorse at this point the idea of a licensed parent-driven bus service.
I believe that there are some problems with such a proposal. I have to say that I do not think that we can endorse such a course of action at this stage. However, I do take very seriously the recommendation that there should be a bus service for those children. Indeed, it was part of the original decision, as I recall, of the Government on the Lyons school and, of course, subject to demand, we will be very interested in providing such a service.
MR WOOD: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Will the Minister then extend that same principle to children at Hackett school who, indeed, might go in three different directions to new schools if Hackett is ever closed?
MR HUMPHRIES: I do recall that the Government made similar comments in respect of the Hackett school in its original decision. Nothing that has happened today should give reason for that decision to change.
Ministerial Travel - Basic Equipment Allowance
MR MOORE: My question is directed to Mr Kaine, the Chief Minister. I have with me a copy of the front page of the Brisbane Courier-Mail of 15 November which reported the conviction and sentencing to one year,s gaol of ex-Minister Leisha Harvey on 13 counts. At the time Judge Helman is reported as saying - and I quote in part:
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