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MINISTER FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION TAKEN ON NOTICE 24 OCTOBER 1990
Hawker community response to Weetangera communitys
submission on Schools Reshaping
Weetangera Primary School
MR WOOD - asked the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts:
Why did you undertake a deliberately divisive course of action in requiring one school community to criticise another, and that is the Hawker school community was asked to comment on the submission of the Weetangera School community in relation to the closure of Weetangera School?
MR HUMPHRIES - The answer to Mr Woods question is:
I have not invited one school community to criticise another. I am informed that no officer from my Ministry requested the Hawker community to submit a response to the Weetangera submission.
Hawker parents did write a response to the Weetangera submission after a copy of the submission came in to their possession.
The Weetangera submission was being widely distributed and was not being treated as a classified document.
The Hawker response pointed out inaccuracies concerning Hawker Primary that had been made in the Weetangera submission.
The Hawker response was made available to the Ministry.
I reject Mr Woods assertion that I deliberately initiated a divisive course of action.
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