Page 4373 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 21 November 1990
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Mr Connolly: We moved that we do notices Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7, so No. 2 just sits there.
MR SPEAKER: So we will come back to No. 2 then.
Mr Wood: At some other time.
SCHOOL CLOSURES
MR WOOD (11.35), by leave: I move:
That it is the opinion of this Assembly that Lyons Primary School remain open to continue to provide high quality education.
That it is the opinion of this Assembly that Holder High School remain open to continue to provide high quality education.
That it is the opinion of this Assembly that Curtin North Primary School remain open to continue to provide high quality education.
That it is the opinion of this Assembly that Cook Primary School remain open to continue to provide high quality education.
That it is the opinion of this Assembly that Hackett Primary School remain open to continue to provide high quality education.
These motions read that it is the opinion of this Assembly that Lyons Primary School, Holder High School, Curtin North Primary School, Cook Primary School and Hackett Primary School should remain open to continue to provide high quality education.
The Government has voted to close these five schools - four primary schools and one high school. It voted yesterday to do that, upstairs on the fifth floor. We seek on the floor of the Assembly the support of members to ensure that those schools remain open. We do not concede defeat in this matter, and nor have the schools conceded defeat. They intend to fight on and we will join them in that fight. We will continue to give the same support to those schools as we did to the schools that have now successfully completed the campaign to stay open. We do not support the political expediency that proposes to sacrifice these schools.
I was interested to hear the Deputy Chief Minister comment about the healthy tensions of the Government, those tensions over the issue of these schools which have almost torn the Government apart. I want to make some comment about the outcomes, if known, of the Hudson report. It is not at all clear what the Government has accepted from
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