Page 5197 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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The community -
that is the community of the Curtin Primary School -
has decided that the relocation of Curtin Primary School is a positive and beneficial move that will result in a better educational facility for our children.
I remind the house that those opposite voted against the closure of that school without any consultation whatsoever with the school community concerned. That is an appalling set of circumstances to have arisen. The new school, once it is refurbished and complete at South Curtin, has the potential to become a vibrant and viable central area school serving a substantial section of the Woden community.
A great deal more is at stake if the bans presently on the school are not lifted. It has certainly placed the Curtin and Lyons children in a fluctuating environment. Many parents who all along wished their children to attend the new school are placed in an extremely doubtful situation. A process of attrition is likely to occur, leading to a loss of children from those schools, particularly Lyons, to other schools due to the uncertainty surrounding the refurbishment.
I have to say that morale in the Curtin school has been excellent until very recently. The fact that it has waned in the last few days is very largely attributable to the tactics employed by some parents at the Lyons Primary School and to the continuing unwillingness of the Trades and Labour Council to listen to those parents and their request that the bans be removed.
Alliance Government
MR MOORE: My question is to the Chief Minister and has to do with the time he is away. First, can he tell us who will be the Minister looking after the areas of health and education? Will the Acting Chief Minister, Bernard Collaery, have the power to sack senior public servants during your absence?
MR KAINE: In answer to the first part of the question, Mr Duby will be handling health and education. In terms of the second part of the question, no member of the Executive has the power to fire any public servant. I know that there was an incident under the Labor Government when a Minister improperly exercised such a power. It is not the intention of this Government to do so. No public servant need fear his job under this Government. We have already said that, even in restructuring, if people become
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