CORONAVIRUS — INTERSTATE BORDER
RESTRICTIONS
464. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. I refer
to the comments the Premier made just then suggesting that the plan to lift the
border on 8 August was based on health advice. Will the Premier continue to
provide that advice, by way of supplementary information or by tabling
documents, so that the people of Western Australia can be sure that the health
advice indicated that the border should come up on 8 August; and, if not, why
not?
Mr M.
McGOWAN replied:
The Liberal Party continues to try
to undermine the measures that we have put in place to protect the health of Western
Australians.
Several members interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN: That is what
the Liberals and, apparently, the Nationals WA are doing.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER: Members!
Mr M. McGOWAN: They are
continuing to undermine the efforts we have made to protect the safety and
health of Western Australians. That is what
they are doing. As one member outlined before, we have even seen that one of
the principal critics of our border arrangements, Gladys Berejiklian, is now
saying that people from Melbourne should not go to New South Wales. I think she
is heading down the route of a border arrangement. Members might recall that
six weeks ago she was the principal critic of what we did.
We have tabled an enormous amount
of information in the upper house.
Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup
interjected.
The SPEAKER: You have had
two goes.
Mr M. McGOWAN: Members
opposite said that it was not true, but when they got the information, they saw
that what we told them was true. They continue to undermine us. It does not do
the Liberal Party in Western Australia any good to continue to undermine the
health —
A member interjected.
The SPEAKER: I am not behind
you either, Leader of the House. You are not even in the chamber, but you can
still get called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN: It does not
do the Liberal Party in Western Australia any good to continue to undermine the
measures that we are putting in place to protect the health, safety and
wellbeing of Western Australians. It does not do members opposite any good, and
it does not help public confidence in Western Australia for senior people in
Parliament to act in the way that they do.