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arrangements will continue. The ACT ILY Coordination Committee will be reconstituted to oversee the development of an integrated ACT literacy strategy which will cover all levels of education, from before school to the adult years, and both formal and informal provision. This strategy will determine priorities for the 1990s, as we work towards the United Nations target of literacy for all by the year 2000.
The Government recognises the importance of basic skills education in a rapidly changing technological society, and shares the view of the ACT Council for Adult Literacy in accepting the right of all citizens to develop:
... an active literacy which allows people to use language to enhance their capacity to think, create and question, in order to participate effectively in society.
Mr Speaker, I commend this paper to the house:
Literacy - International Year - 1990 - Ministerial statement, 19 March 1991.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Mrs Nolan) adjourned.
HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES - WESTON CREEK
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
MR SPEAKER: I have received a letter from Mr Berry proposing that a matter of public importance be submitted to the Assembly for discussion, namely:
The failure of the Liberal Residents Rally Government to maintain Health and Community Services in Weston Creek.
MR BERRY (3.23): The people who were not mentioned in the topic of this matter of public importance, the No Self Government people, have had a role to play in this as well because they have helped the Chief Minister, Mr Kaine, deliver a government that, as he described it in his election material, one could afford. The people of Weston Creek would disagree because they have had their community assets pillaged by this Government and, of course, they sting from the effects of those raids on their assets. The people of Weston Creek have been singled out for special treatment by a very special government. This lot opposite have ensured that people in Weston Creek have been subjected to more cuts than any other area of the ACT.
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