GOVERNMENT PROJECTS — DEFERRAL
556. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Treasurer:
I have a supplementary question. To
confirm, is the Treasurer saying that the Yanchep Metronet rail project was on
budget and on time before the decision to defer it was made?
Mr M.
McGOWAN replied:
I
think it is two rail lines. I think it is Yanchep and Thornlie–Cockburn,
both of which are under construction. I have been out there and inspected some of the work that is underway.
Obviously, they are complex projects. I will tell you what, Madam Speaker; we
are building them. The member for Moore actually has a sticker on his car
opposing them.
Mr R.S. Love: No, I don't.
Mr M. McGOWAN: He has taken
the sticker off! The sticker is gone. He has moved the sticker. The next thing
you know, he will be moving his office into West Perth like the rest of the
Nationals WA! What I love about these fake regional people in the National
Party is that they put their offices in West Perth, have all their staff there,
have all their IT there and hang out at Gordon St Garage; that is the
modern-day National Party. Remember the days of Hendy Cowan, the boy from
Narembeen—remember that? They are long gone—long gone with this
bunch.
The SPEAKER: Premier, I am
taking a point of order.
Point of Order
Dr D.J.
HONEY: Standing order 78 states that an answer must be relevant to
the question.
The
SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Questions without Notice Resumed
Mr M. McGOWAN: As the
minister just pointed out to me, New South Wales has stopped all construction.
It has shut down construction, it has shut down hardware—everything in
New South Wales. Here our problem is that we have so much work, the strongest
participation rate, the lowest unemployment rate in Australia, the best
finances of anywhere in the world. New South Wales has shut down everything and
somehow the member for Moore is complaining about our state. Our state and the
revenue that we are producing is carrying the nation. How does he think that
the commonwealth is paying for all the full-cycle docking in Adelaide? The
revenue is generated in Western Australia.
What do we get for it? Nothing. What do we get for it from the Liberals and
Nationals? Nothing. All the Liberals
and Nationals do is punish Western Australia for supporting the rest of the
country as the Collins-class decision today shows.
The SPEAKER: That concludes
question time.