SOUTH FREMANTLE POWER STATION — REGISTER OF
HERITAGE PLACES
302. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Heritage:
I have a supplementary question.
Thank you, but I do not think that the minister directly answered whether he
had had discussions with the particular unsolicited bidder. Can the minister
explain whether this decision to sell the South
Fremantle power station will mean that the state government may be asked to
provide funding to the successful proponent in order to meet heritage
requirements?
Mr D.A.
TEMPLEMAN replied:
The member clearly does not
understand the role of the Minister for Heritage or the Heritage Council of Western
Australia in these matters. His question is related to an expression of
interest process that is overseen by that agency. In any future proposal for
that asset, heritage considerations will be a part of that process. That forms part
of the obligations to the state heritage principles and, indeed, the Heritage
Act. This is an important heritage asset. It
is now out for expressions of interest by the owner of that site. When and if
the expressions of interest process that is currently underway delivers
an outcome that is ultimately approved, the heritage interests will be part of
that process because we want to make sure that we protect the integrity of that
heritage asset in whatever it may eventually be utilised for.