❓ Question regarding teacher strike and student supervision. Minister delegates decision-making to school principals, citing safety concerns and blaming the union and opposition for the strike.
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TEACHERS’ STRIKE
I have a supplementary question. I repeat what I asked previously: will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN
I have a supplementary question. I repeat what I asked previously: will the minister guarantee that all children who go to school tomorrow will be properly supervised? Mr M. McGOWAN
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We will leave that to the principals. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: We will leave that to the principals. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
We will leave that to the principals. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: We will leave that to the principals. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
We will leave that to the principals. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the third time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
Mr M. McGOWAN : We will leave it to principals around the state to determine what happens at their schools. The directive that we have issued to principals is that they should use safety as their guiding factor in determining whether their schools will open tomorrow. That is fair and reasonable. This strike action tomorrow is not of the state government’s making; it is because the union executive has ignored an order by the Industrial Relations Commission that it should comply with. If opposition members should be looking at anyone, it is themselves for encouraging the union to take that action.
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