Page 4887 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 26 November 1991

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MR SPEAKER: Once the motion is moved, the MPI is off the books.

Mr Humphries: It need not matter in that sense, Mr Speaker, if we were speaking to the motion rather than the MPI. I am quite happy to do that, if other members agree.

MR SPEAKER: Please move your motion then, Mr Humphries.

NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FUNDING
Motion

Motion (by Mr Humphries), by leave, proposed:

That:

(1) This Assembly calls upon the ACT Government to appoint a Board of Inquiry under the Inquiries Act 1991 to inquire into all aspects of government funding of non-government preschool, primary and secondary education in the ACT, with particular reference to, inter alia:

(a) the relationship between funding levels of government and non-government schools;

(b) planning and provision of capital resources including debt servicing and disposal of surplus property and facilities;

(c) the practicability and cost effectiveness of greater co-operative resource sharing between government and non-government schools; and

(d) alternative options for government funding which reflect equity and which facilitate the exercise of parental choice of schooling, in particular for children from lower socio-economic backgrounds;

(2) Such Board of Inquiry should report by May 31, 1992; and

(3) This Assembly calls upon the ACT Government to suspend proposed cuts to three non-government schools pending the outcome of this inquiry.

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