Page 2887 - Week 10 - Thursday, 15 August 1991
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Unquestionably, there is an amount of work that needs to be done at Holder High School if it is to remain the site of the school, whether long-term or perhaps even short-term, as a twin campus pending consolidation in 1993, if that is the way things are to go. The teachers union, when I saw them a week or so ago, were quite emphatic that there was an amount of work to do in terms of occupational health and safety and of general amenity. They were quite insistent that there were considerable refurbishments and improvements to be done.
At the Waramanga campus the needs change, depending on consolidation. If there is to be no consolidation, obviously the amount of work is less. There is some continuing maintenance work of pretty high priority, amounting to about $250,000, for repainting and renewing and replacing various things.
If the amalgamation proceeds, you would know of the package the Alliance Government proposed of something between $1.5 and $2m. That included demountables to be placed on the site to cater for the overload for a short period. It included improvements and refurbishments in the technology area, the science area, the change rooms and the canteen, considerable improvements to staff rooms, certain classrooms and administrative areas in the main block. The library would also have to be considerably enlarged. They were the sorts of works required for an amalgamation.
I believe that this information is public. I will make it readily available. When I have more information about Holder, I will advise you of it.
Schools : M-Rated Movies
MR STEVENSON: My question is also to Mr Wood, and I am sure he is as concerned about this particular point of education as I am. Is Mr Wood aware that recently 11- to 13-year-old girls were shown an M-rated movie at Melrose school? Certainly, I know that all parents were not informed about that. I ask: Is it the policy of the Education Department to show M movies and also PGR movies? If so, under what conditions? I think we would all be interested in finding out how often such movies have been shown, what movies have been shown, and at which schools and classes.
MR WOOD: I am not aware, nor has it been my intention to be minutely aware, of what materials are in the hands of children in schools. I have a great deal of confidence in the ability of the school structure and the principals and teachers of the schools to see that the materials that are used by children are challenging, exciting and appropriate to what the courses require. I am not aware that students at Melrose High School may have viewed a mature-rated video. I think mature is for 15 years and older, is it not?
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