❓ Question regarding consultation and impact of proposed flexible school hours, met with a dismissive and politically charged response focusing on criticising the opposition rather than providing direct answers.
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EDUCATION - 10-HOUR SCHOOL DAYS
I refer to the current crisis in the education system and to the government’s policy-on-the-run approach to alleviating the teacher shortage, including plans to run 10-hour school days. (1) What consultation has been carried out with teachers, parents and communities about this new plan? (2) Will it affect both primary and secondary students, and how much extra will it cost to implement? (3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN
I refer to the current crisis in the education system and to the government’s policy-on-the-run approach to alleviating the teacher shortage, including plans to run 10-hour school days. (1) What consultation has been carried out with teachers, parents and communities about this new plan? (2) Will it affect both primary and secondary students, and how much extra will it cost to implement? (3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN
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(1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(1) What consultation has been carried out with teachers, parents and communities about this new plan? (2) Will it affect both primary and secondary students, and how much extra will it cost to implement? (3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(2) Will it affect both primary and secondary students, and how much extra will it cost to implement? (3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(1) What consultation has been carried out with teachers, parents and communities about this new plan? (2) Will it affect both primary and secondary students, and how much extra will it cost to implement? (3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(2) Will it affect both primary and secondary students, and how much extra will it cost to implement? (3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(3) What changes will need to be made to the school bus system to cater for this plan? (4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(4) What impact will this have on families with children of different ages who must be ferried to their respective classes at different times and schools? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: (1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
(1)-(4) I am absolutely gobsmacked by the - Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr T.R. Sprigg : You’re always gobsmacked! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I am always gobsmacked by what members opposite have to say. It is true; I am always gobsmacked. I walk around this Parliament constantly feeling gobsmacked, listening to the questions of the opposition. I am gobsmacked by that question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I am amazed. The member for Darling Range calls what is going on at the moment a crisis. He does not know what a crisis is - although he may know what crisis is, because he was the Minister for Health in the last government, so I suppose he would know what a crisis is. All the member for Darling Range is doing is standing in this place perpetuating this idea and trying to run down public education in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that we are participating in negotiations with the State School Teachers’ Union of WA about getting more flexibility into school hours. I would have thought that is a good thing. I will give members an example of the sort of thing that we are looking at, whereby there may be two high schools nearby and there may be four or eight students in those schools in each year of TEE who want to study chemistry. What is wrong with trying to work out a mechanism by which, through flexible schooling, those classes can be joined together and a chemistry teacher can teach chemistry to those students from both schools? What is wrong with that sort of idea? That is what we are in discussions with the teachers’ union about at the moment. I think what we are working on is a sensible way forward. The details surrounding that sort of initiative are being worked on. Raising furphies like school buses and whatever else the member for Darling Range raised in his question is only a mechanism for him to criticise what is a legitimate way forward for working on flexibility in schooling. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
Mr M. McGOWAN : It is no wonder, with the quality of that sort of question, that the Liberal Party is now not in power in one single Parliament in this country. Not in one single Parliament in this country is it in power! That is unprecedented - not one single Parliament. The Liberal Party is not even in power in the upper house. Its leadership in the upper house is run by Noel Crichton-Browne and Brian Burke. That is who is running the Liberal Party in this Parliament. Together with Norman Moore, they tell members opposite what to do, and members on the other side do not have any say in the matter in this Parliament. Noel Crichton-Browne has been Norman Moore’s best friend since he was five years old, I heard in a fantastic radio interview the other day with Liam Bartlett. Liam Bartlett showed members opposite how they should treat Norman Moore. The Liberal Party in the state is bereft; it is run by Noel Crichton-Browne. It is no wonder that the Liberal Party is in opposition for the present and will be for a long time to come.
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