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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 966 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 19 November 2020 by Ms M.J. Davies

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

WORKER ACCOMMODATION — REGIONS

966. Ms M.J. DAVIES to the Minister for Tourism:

He will get the chance, because I am seeking clarification as part of my supplementary question. Just so I am absolutely clear, can the minister confirm that all he has done is hold a series of talkfests and blamed the federal government for worker shortages? In effect, he has done nothing.

Several members interjected.

The SPEAKER: Members!

Mr P. PAPALIA replied:

Member, honestly, as I said, I have spoken personally to hundreds of small businesses across regional Western Australia. The last meeting to which the member refers was in Albany with I think some 20 or so local businesses. Sitting across the table from me was a farmstay operator. What he said to me was exactly what the member said—that our biggest challenge is getting people to work. But do members know what he said to me after that? His very next sentence was ''I'd rather have this problem than the problem they're having elsewhere in the world.'' That is the truth.