Page 2886 - Week 10 - Thursday, 15 August 1991
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timetable, as I indicated last night; but I am aware that the decision is urgently required. You mention funds. I keep saying that we will always see that the appropriate funds are given so that the schools maintain a top quality education.
MRS NOLAN: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. My question is: When? Is it two days, two weeks, two months? The school community of Weston Creek needs to have some idea when the decision will be made.
MR WOOD: It will be as soon as I possibly can; as soon as I can be confident that the responses I have are an accurate reflection. I certainly believe that it will not be in excess of one month, and I have given myself a generous timetable there.
Holder and Weston Creek High Schools
DR KINLOCH: My question is also to Mr Wood on that same area, because we were all at that meeting last night. Could the Minister advise us of any major building and grounds deficiencies or faults in Holder High School and Weston Creek High School, the twin campuses under the care of the principal of Stromlo High School? I realise that that title is a contentious one. Will these deficiencies or faults be corrected and/or remedied in time for the beginning of the 1992 school year?
MR WOOD: I have to say, first of all, that there would be no major deficiencies; but then let me establish my criteria for that. We have children in these schools, and I believe that they are in safe and excellent accommodation.
I believe that what is intended by the question is: What needs to be done to maintain these schools in top condition? Obviously, as part of my consideration of this, I asked the Education Department to provide me earlier with details. I have no shortage of information about the Waramanga campus, but less information - not surprisingly - about the Holder campus.
The fact is that, following the decision of the Alliance Government, the Education Department, not unreasonably - and to use my words - had the Holder High School as part of their responsibility slip from the list. So, they have not immediately accessible information for me on the amount of work they were lining up to have done. It was their expectation that that would be handed over to the Department of Urban Services people, who maintain those unutilised schools.
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