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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 7 Hansard (20 June) . . Page.. 2208 ..
MR BERRY (continuing):
Mr Osborne and Mr Rugendyke have been pathetic, weak and insincere, and the message is getting out. I will tell you how it is getting out. A campaign was started today. It was announced outside this Assembly. It said:
Send our politicians a message.
$27 million extra spent in schools over the next four years will provide 60,000 students:
with further class size reductions
support for student welfare and counselling
support for students with disabilities
support for students at risk
support for literacy and numeracy
support for information technology.
The only thing that is consistent with the position of Mr Osborne and Mr Rugendyke is that they are taking something away from somebody. They took away the support for people who might need the protection of a safe injecting place, and they are taking away initiatives which Labor would provide for students in our schools.
I want to see how they are going to explain to the 75 per cent of students who are going to miss out under this proposal why they voted in this way. According to an announcement this morning, 45,000 students will miss the bus. I seek leave to table a couple of documents which explain that position and seek leave to have them incorporated into Hansard.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: I present the following papers:
Education expenditure-Copies of posters (2).
The documents read as follows:
$27 million ticket.
45,000 students miss the bus!
with further class size reductions
support for student welfare and counselling
support for students at risk
support for literacy and numeracy
support for information technology
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