Page 602 - Week 02 - Thursday, 21 February 1991
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MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I can say without equivocation that I believe that it is totally unjust - a major imposition and totally unjustified. I think there has been a good deal of public debate on this issue and I think it has been very clearly demonstrated that it is virtually impossible for pensioners with a small amount of money to get the 10 per cent interest that the Government is deeming that they will receive. That is total dishonesty on the part of the Government. It is a gross imposition on pensioners and I cannot understand how this Government and this Treasurer, who will do nothing about correcting the economy that he has created, can possibly impose this kind of a burden on our pensioners. I think it is disgraceful.
South Curtin Primary School- Therapy Centre Playgroup
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Education Minister, Mr Humphries. I want to explore further the difficulty around the Therapy Centre at the former South Curtin school. Mr Humphries, since the Government announced its plan to relocate the Therapy Centre, the centre's playgroup has been packed up but not moved due to insufficient space at Weston Creek Health Centre. The playgroup worker has now been transferred to Malkara School. Will the Minister give an undertaking to this Assembly that the worker will be retained and the playgroup reinstated?
MR HUMPHRIES: I do not know what the circumstances of the playgroup are at the Therapy Centre.
Mr Wood: Rather messed up, actually.
MR HUMPHRIES: I do not treat what you say with quite as much jaundice as I treat what Mr Berry says. I will accept that, as you have caught me out once already this week, you might be right. Therefore I will go and check out my facts and I will come back to the Assembly. However, it is not the Government's intention to separate the services which are an integral part of the Therapy Centre. The intention has always been to transfer that entire centre, at the one time, to its new home. If the playgroup is part of the Therapy Centre, then my understanding is that there will be no break-up of that playgroup from the rest of the Therapy Centre, and I would expect to be able to transfer all those things to their new home in due course. Whether that teacher is temporarily at Malkara or not I just do not know at the moment, but I will certainly find out and I will get back to Mr Wood.
MR WOOD: I ask a supplementary question. When you come back, Mr Humphries, will you also give an indication of when, if your plans proceed, the playgroup will be working together again?
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, I will, Mr Speaker.
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