❓ Mr. Barnett questions the Deputy Premier about land allocation at Hearson Cove prior to the election. Mr. Ripper acknowledges preliminary work but emphasizes the previous government's failure to complete native title negotiations.
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Will the Deputy Premier concede that prior to the last election, in the area of Hearson Cove, land had been allocated to Syntroleum Sweetwater Operations Ltd, Plenty River Corporation Ltd and the Chambel India Fertiliser Plant, with further land remaining for other proposed gas-processing industries, and that was done consistent with the Burrup Peninsula plan? The allocation had been made to those companies and they had agreed. Mr RIPPER
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I do not deny that the previous Government had done work on industrial development. What I do deny is that it had all been done. For it all to have been done, the previous Government would have had to have completed the native title negotiations - Mr Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
Mr RIPPER replied: I do not deny that the previous Government had done work on industrial development. What I do deny is that it had all been done. For it all to have been done, the previous Government would have had to have completed the native title negotiations - Mr Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
I do not deny that the previous Government had done work on industrial development. What I do deny is that it had all been done. For it all to have been done, the previous Government would have had to have completed the native title negotiations - Mr Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
Mr Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
Mr RIPPER replied: I do not deny that the previous Government had done work on industrial development. What I do deny is that it had all been done. For it all to have been done, the previous Government would have had to have completed the native title negotiations - Mr Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
I do not deny that the previous Government had done work on industrial development. What I do deny is that it had all been done. For it all to have been done, the previous Government would have had to have completed the native title negotiations - Mr Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
Mr Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
The SPEAKER: Member! Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
Mr RIPPER: The Leader of the Opposition cannot learn if he does not listen occasionally. He has just told the House that all the work was done. It cannot all have been done because the native title negotiations had not been completed, and the land cannot be taken up without the completion of those negotiations. The coalition did not do it. We are not giving things away; we are properly, respectfully, legally recognising the rights of traditional owners under commonwealth law.
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