Page 5022 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 26 November 1991
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ESTIMATES - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report on the Appropriation Bill 1991-92 - Government Response
Consideration resumed from 20 November 1991, on motion by Ms Follett:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Non-Government School Funding
MR STEVENSON (1.16 am): As you are all here, and it is 1.16 am - a good time for me - I will make a few comments. Earlier today, after I spoke on the matter of the non-government schools, Mr Collaery said that it was dangerous that I mentioned what I mentioned because it might create division. I think it was fairly obvious that the division had been created - as Mr Kaine quite rightly said - by the Labor Party ignoring the people, ignoring consultation and ignoring the will of the Assembly. You can all go; it is perfectly okay; the speakers are upstairs; you can just listen in.
It was interesting that Mr Collaery would make such a statement. I mentioned it to somebody on the phone a little while ago, and he said, "Is not a parliament a place where you are supposed to say things that happen to be divisive?". I think it is most unfortunate that Mr Collaery would make such a statement. It is not unusual for Mr Collaery to make the odd statement that is unfounded. He made no statement that picked up anything that I had said and said that it was not okay. I had said that the Labor Party did not do what it said it was going to do. Is there something wrong with that? I said that it was an ideological decision. Was there something wrong with that? I said various other things. So, I think it important that I set the record straight. I still have three minutes to chat away - but I think I will leave it at that.
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