Page 4489 - Week 15 - Thursday, 22 November 1990

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Education Budget

MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Chief Minister, as Treasurer. I refer to the changes imposed on the education budget following decisions not to close certain schools. Do you agree with your Education Minister, who said this morning - these are not his words, but it was his attitude - that apparently near enough is good enough? He is not concerned to adjust what are incorrect budget figures.

MR KAINE: First of all, the Minister did not say that, Mr Speaker.

Mr Wood: I said that.

MR KAINE: Well, how can you ask me to comment on something that the Minister did not say?

Mr Wood: That was his attitude.

MR KAINE: You impute something to the Minister and then ask me to comment on it.

MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Wood!

MR KAINE: I am not going to comment on the Minister,s attitude, or yours.

MR WOOD: I have a supplementary question. The Minister did say that any extra funds would come from the Treasurer,s Advance. That is what he said. Do you agree with that?

MR KAINE: Yes, Mr Speaker, I do.

Corporations Law

MR JENSEN: My question is directed to Mr Collaery in his capacity as Attorney-General. I refer the Minister to a report in the Canberra Times of 21 November this year which quotes the Leader of the Opposition, Ms Follett, who claimed that you are responsible for the failure of the Commonwealth to consult with the ACT Government over the use of the ACT as a primary jurisdiction for the national corporations law. Is this statement correct? If not, can you advise the Assembly of the true position?

MR COLLAERY: The statement, of course, is entirely incorrect and deceptive. Mr Speaker, the ACT Government wrote twice to the Federal Government, to the Federal Attorney, once in February and again in April - I have some of that correspondence here - asking for information on the Commonwealth,s proposals for the national corporations law.

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