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MINISTER FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION ON NOTICE NO. 293
School Closures - Weetangera Primary School .
MR WOOD - asked Minister for Health, Education and the Arts on notice on 20 November 1990:
With regard to your statement in the Assembly on 12 September 1990 -
(1) Is it not true that the revised rationale issued by the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts asserted that the Weetangera and Hawker schools were exactly the same size in terms of gross floor area.
(2) Is it not also true that the office of the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts has now written to the Weetangera community admitting that the information given to the Minister about the relative sizes of the two schools was in fact incorrect and that the Weetangera school has a larger gross floor area than the Hawker school.
(3) What measures has the Minister taken to ensure that any subsequent information supplied to him by his Department is any more accurate than the first lot of information it provided.
(4) Does the Chief Minister persist in his claim that the Government had accurate and adequate information on which to base its decision about closing the Weetangera school.
(5) What action does the Chief Minister propose to take to assure the Assembly that the basic factual information on which the decision to close other schools is less inaccurate than the information relating to Weetangera has been demonstrated to be.
MR HUMPHRIES - the answer to Mr Woods question is:
(1) The revised rationale issued by the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts indicated that the gross floor areas were the same. The figures quoted however were inconsistent in how the plans were measured and what was included.-
The Hawker figure included the medical/dental clinic for example, but that for Weetangera did not.
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