POLICE — WORKERS'
COMPENSATION
891. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the minister representing the
Minister for Police:
I refer to the state government's
commitment to introduce a police-specific compensation scheme prior to the next
state election.
(1) Has cabinet given approval to
draft a bill; and, if so, on what date was approval granted?
(2) Is the state
government still committed to honouring this election commitment in the
remaining weeks of this Parliament?
(3) If yes to
(2), why has a potential bill not made it to the top 20 priorities of the
government for passage prior to Parliament being prorogued?
Hon
STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. The following answer has been provided to me by
the Minister for Police.
(1)–(4) Deliberations
of cabinet are confidential. The government is committed to honouring its
commitment and is engaging with the Western Australia
Police Union of Workers on its delivery. It took the Liberal–National
government eight years to develop a proposal, which required our police
officers to choose between their existing conditions and the state workers'
compensation scheme.
[See page 5687.]