Page 2545 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 9 August 2016
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It took a while for the various education ministers to spin the right concoction, but the latest version as to whether the government has delivered on this commitment is, if you add up absolutely everything in the last four years that could vaguely be argued as maintenance, upgrade or similar, that they manage to get over the line. The only problem is that the $70 million was sold as new money; that means over and above the regular annual allocation.
You only have to see the overcrowded classrooms in Garran, with 37 students in a class, the peeling paint or the smelly and ancient toilet blocks in several of our schools, without looking at the projected enrolments at a dozen or more schools that are bursting at the seams, to know that education has been neglected.
What does this government do about it? How does it try to defend its record of refusing to expand Franklin Early Childhood School, or plan to address Harrison School’s capacity issues? It does not.
The Chief Minister resorts to the ALP election scare tactics manual and he came out with a blinder of a media release yesterday. I am not sure what he was drinking at the time he decided to come up with this doozy, but obviously it was something stronger than $3 sparkling water from a city restaurant—
Mr Gentleman: Point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Point of order, Mr Gentleman?
MR DOSZPOT: You are awake, Mick?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: It is a point of order.
Mr Gentleman: The reflections on the minister in this place are completely unparliamentary.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just a moment, Mr Gentleman. There is a point of order. You have been in this place long enough, Mr Doszpot, to know you take your seat when there is a point of order.
MR DOSZPOT: I am amazed that Mr Gentleman was awake.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Gentleman, a point of order?
Mr Gentleman: There is a reflection in the interjection as well, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is completely inappropriate to reflect on people in this place, and I ask that he withdraw that comment.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Point of order upheld. You withdraw. You implied—
MR DOSZPOT: Which comment are you referring to?
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