Mr. Ripper asks if the government will extend eligibility for government regional officers' housing to key employees of state government-funded NGOs in Hedland. Mr. Buswell avoids a direct answer, criticising the previous Labor government's inaction on high rents in Karratha and promising future support for the not-for-profit sector.

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20 April 2010
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Housing and Works

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HEDLAND HOUSING — RENTAL INCREASES
I have a supplementary question. Will the government extend eligibility to government regional officers’ housing to key employers of state government funded non-government organisations in the Hedland area? Mr T.R. BUSWELL

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It is amazing! When rents were $2 000-plus a week in Karratha, what did the Labor government do? The silence is absolutely deafening. The former government sat on its hands and did nothing for eight years. The Leader of the Opposition should read the economic audit. I will send him a copy. We are introducing fundamental reform to the way the state government engages with the community in the not-for-profit sector. The budget will be handed down in four weeks and members will see how this government will support that sector in a way that members opposite can only ever have dreamed about.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: It is amazing! When rents were $2 000-plus a week in Karratha, what did the Labor government do? The silence is absolutely deafening. The former government sat on its hands and did nothing for eight years. The Leader of the Opposition should read the economic audit. I will send him a copy. We are introducing fundamental reform to the way the state government engages with the community in the not-for-profit sector. The budget will be handed down in four weeks and members will see how this government will support that sector in a way that members opposite can only ever have dreamed about.
It is amazing! When rents were $2 000-plus a week in Karratha, what did the Labor government do? The silence is absolutely deafening. The former government sat on its hands and did nothing for eight years. The Leader of the Opposition should read the economic audit. I will send him a copy. We are introducing fundamental reform to the way the state government engages with the community in the not-for-profit sector. The budget will be handed down in four weeks and members will see how this government will support that sector in a way that members opposite can only ever have dreamed about.

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