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Racism Papers LEADER OF THE OpPOSmON: RACISM Thursday. 13 October 1994 ASSEMBLY 1007 Thursday, 13 October 1994 Government Employee Housing Authority - Report for the year 1993-94 Historic Buildings Council-Report for the year 1993-94 The SPEAKER (Hon. J. E. Delzoppo) took the chair at 10.05 a.m. and read the prayer. Latrobe Regional Commission - Report for the year 1993-94 LEADER OF THE oPPOSmON: RACISM Legal Aid Commission - Report for the year 1993-94 Mr FINN (Tullamarine) - I desire to give notice Ubraries Board of Victoria - Report for the year that tomorrow I will move: 1993-94 lbat this house condemns the Honourable the Leader Melbourne Market Authority - Report for the year of the Opposition for - (a) his refusal to dissociate 1993-94 himself from the disgraceful racial slur on the Australian-Greek cOmn\wlity by the Honourable David Melbourne Water Corporation - Report for the year White, MLC; and (b) his blatant hypocrisy in writing to 1993-94 the Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner over alleged indiscretions by government members whilst at Melbourne Water Corporation Employees' the same time condoning overt racism by a senior Superannuation Fund - Report for the year 1993-94 member of the Australian Labor Party. Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board - Report for the year MrTHOMSON (Pascoe Vale) -I put it to you, 1993-94 Mr Speaker, that the notice of motion refers to debates or things that are alleged to have been said Museums Advisory Board - Report for the year in another house and that it is therefore out of order. 1993-94 The SPEAKER - Order! The question as to National Electricity - Report for the year 1993-94 whether the motion is admissible will be decided when the motion is dealt with. It is in order to give Port of Geelong Authority - Report for the year notice of the motion. 1993-94 PAPERS Public Record Office - Report of the Keeper of the Public Records for the year 1993-94 Laid on table by Oede Public Transport Corporation - Report for the year Coal Corporation - Report for the year 1993-94 1993-94 Construction Industry Long Service Leave Board - Roads Corporation - Report for the year 1993-94 Report for the year 1993-94 Rural Finance Act 1988 - Direction by the Treasurer to Country Fire Authority - Report for the year 1993-94 the Rural Finance Corporation to establish, operate and administer a scheme of assistance for persons affected Electricity Services Victoria - Report for the period by potential drought conditions in Victoria ended 30 June 1994 Stamps Act 1958 - Report of exemptions approved Energy Brix Australia Corporation - Report for the and refunds made pursuant to section 137R for the year period ended 30 June 1994 1993-94 Gas and Fuel Corporation - Report for the year State Electricity Commission - Report for the year 1993-94 1993-94 Generation Victoria - Report for the year 1993-94 State Library of Victoria' Councll- Report for the year 1993-94 ADJOURNMENT 1008 ASSEMBLY Thursday. 13 October 1994 Tourism Victoria - Report for the year 1993-94 Mr ELDER (Ripon) - It is a pleasure to speak on the Appropriation (1994-95, No. 1) Bill. I wish to set Transport Accident Commission - Report for the year in place some of the good things that have been 1993-94 achieved in education and refute some of the claims made by the opposition's education spokesman, the Victorian Dairy Industry Authority - Report for the honourable member for Carrum, particularly some year 1993-94 of the pork pies, or Brumbies -- Victorian Meat Authority - Report for the year 1993-94 The SPEAKER - Order! The honourable member for Ripon will use the proper form of Victorian Prison Industries Commission - Report for address. the year 1993-94 Mr ELDER - I thought Australian dictionaries Victorian Relief Committee - Report for the year were changing 'pork pies' to a new term. The 1993-94 honourable member for Carrum, who sends his own children to private schools and week after week ADJOURNMENT attempts to attack the state education system, should be named in this house as the man who continues to Mr GUDE (Minister for Industry and undermine education in Victoria. He cannot Employment) - I move: understand modem financial practice, self-management or modem management practices That the house, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at because he has led a fairytale existence inside our 10 am. tertiary institutions and has never run his own business. He was a tutor at La Trobe University, a Motion agreed to. lecturer at Swinburne out in fairyland and an industrial officer with the Mwlicipal Officers COMO PROJECT BILL Association. This man has never run his own business and does not understand what Introduction and first reading self-management is about. For Mr MACLELLAN (Minister for Planning), The other day he slagged everything the Mr Gude introduced a bill to repeal the South government has achieved in education over the past Yarra Project Act 1984 and to amend the South two years. Instead of focusing on the good things he Yarn Project (Subdivision and Management) Act attempted to distort the figures that have been 1985 and for other purposes. released by the department and Treasury. He did not say that after all the cuts we have made in Read first time. education we can still claim that Victoria's primary school staffing formula of 1:21 is the best in LIQUOR CONTROL (AMENDMENT) Australia; that Victoria's secondary school staffing (No. 2) BILL ratio of 1:16 is better than the national average; that Victoria's staffing levels in special development Introduction and first reading skills are the best in Australia and comparable with the best in the world; that Victoria has the best Mr HEFFERNAN (Minister for Small Business) staffing for rural secondary colleges, with a special introduced a bill to amend the Liquor Control Act additional staffing allocation to support small 1981 and for other purposes. classes in years 11 and 12; and that Victoria has the best staffing level for remote primary schools in Read first time. Australia, with two full-time teachers for enrolments of 26 students. Even after all the education cuts we APPROPRIATION (1994-95, No. 1) BILL can claim that we are leading Australia. Second reading Teachers tell me they cannot teach because of the new demands being placed on them. I should like to Debate resumed from 12 October; motion of list the recommended teaching contact hours Mr STOCKDALE (Treasured. throughout Australia. In Victoria secondary school teachers teach up to 20 hours a week and the APPROPRIA nON (1994-95. No. 1) BILL Thursday. 13 October 1994 ASSEMBLY 1009 average is 18 hours. In New South Wales the During the Labor administration schools became recommended teaching hours are up to 20 hours and run down. Roofs leaked and windows fell out. That 40 minutes; Tasmania's hours are in line with 5720 million was needed because money had to be Victoria's, although there is not the average of put back into Victoria's assets. The Treasurer, who is 18 hours; in South Australia the recommended a very soft-hearted man, said, 'Any funds you get contact time is up to 20 hours and 40 minutes; in from the closure of schools and the sale of the Queensland, which has a Labor government under properties will go back to the education budget'. Mr Goss, the recommended contact time is up to Under the previous government Mrs Kimer, who 20 hours and 40 mir}.utes; in the Northern Territory was the then Minister for Education, struck a deal the contact time is up to 21 hours and 10 minutes; with Treasury to get the funds from the 86 schools and in Western Australia the time is 21 hours and she closed. Closing schools is not a new 20 minutes. Those figures indicate that Victoria's phenomenon. The previous government closed contact hours are the lowest in Australia. In fact, the schools for demographic reasons. average is 18 hours a week. Most of us would probably say we are in the wrong job! Mr Bracks interjected. Let us focus on some of the good things the Mr ELDER - I saved your school! When government is doing. Labor left us with a black hole ~rs Kirner was advocating the closure of the in education. I do not deny that teachers' salaries Williamstown Secondary College I saved it! You live had to be increased, but Labor introduced the only three doors from it. If you do not send your advanced skills teacher positions and gave nearly children to private schools, like the honourable every teacher a pay rise for which it did not budget. member for Carrum, they will get the advantage of Labor brought down a budget with an unfunded that school just down the road. A plaque was black hole of $84 million. It provided pay increases erected when I opened the new computer centre. I but it did not allocate the funds to meet that went into Kimer heartland - now Bracks commitment. What happened? Because the heartland - and saved a school. They did not have commitment had been made the new coalition to invite me. We did not put any money into it. They government said it would find the money and give said, 'Here's a man who recognises a quality school' teachers the pay rise. It would have been very easy and they invited me into Labor heartland to open to walk away from it because it was a mickey-mouse the centre. Next time you are in there, give it a shine commitment made by a government that knew it forme. would lose the election.
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