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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 378 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 16 June 2022 by Mr P.J. Rundle

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

ROAD SAFETY — NARRIKUP

378. Mr P.J. RUNDLE to the Minister for Transport:

I have a supplementary question. On behalf of those travelling on Albany Highway, when will that engineering solution be delivered?

Ms R. SAFFIOTI replied:

That is underway now. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent across Albany Highway.

Mr P.J. Rundle: I am talking about Narrikup.

Ms R. SAFFIOTI: Honestly! The Nationals WA were in government for eight and a half years. They did not care about budgets. The only budget the Nationals cared about was the fact that they were never going to spend money on roads! Do the Nationals think that people do not realise that? Does the member know what everyone in regional WA is complaining about? It is the amount of roadworks; they have to slow down because there are so many! Today I addressed the Regional Chambers of Commerce WA in West Perth and outlined the record spending. They all understood, and they all agreed, that we are spending more on regional roads than ever before. For eight and a half years, members opposite did not care about the budget. They purposely did not spend money on roads, and now they are coming in here and trying to make road spending an issue in this Parliament. That will not work for them! I find it disgraceful that rather than the National Party spending on roads, it is the Labor Party that is out there spending record amounts on road and rail. We are talking with CBH about how we can move grain better. We are spending a record amount on local government roads and supporting local governments through another set of freight improvements, and we are spending money on ports like they have never seen. This is transport spending for the whole of regional WA. In eight and a half years, members opposite never had the ability to develop a policy to reduce airfare costs for regional Western Australians. They never did anything on that. Our two-zone cap on airfares is very much supported in regional WA. We are doing all we can to catch up on road spending, rail spending and port spending, and on making airfares more affordable. We are doing all we can. In five and a half years, we have done pretty well and we will continue to work hard to deliver.