❓ Mr. Murray questions the Premier about worker entitlements following the cessation of the Muja AB refurbishment project and seeks alternative job provisions for Collie. The Premier deflects, accusing the Labor Party of advocating for the project's closure.
AnsweredQoN 334Legislative Assembly
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MUJA AB —
REFURBISHMENT —
WORKER ENTITLEMENTS
334. Mr M.P. MURRAY to the Premier:
I refer to the Premier's
decision to cease work on the refurbishment of units 1 and 2 of the Muja A and
B plant following a series of poor decisions by government.
(1) Will the
Premier ensure that all entitlements for the employees who undertook work on
the plant will be protected and provided to them?
(2) Now that this
project has been mothballed indefinitely, what other work will this government
provide to the Collie area to replace these local jobs?
(3) Would it not have been better
initially to have used this expenditure on the Collie B power station?
REFURBISHMENT —
WORKER ENTITLEMENTS
334. Mr M.P. MURRAY to the Premier:
I refer to the Premier's
decision to cease work on the refurbishment of units 1 and 2 of the Muja A and
B plant following a series of poor decisions by government.
(1) Will the
Premier ensure that all entitlements for the employees who undertook work on
the plant will be protected and provided to them?
(2) Now that this
project has been mothballed indefinitely, what other work will this government
provide to the Collie area to replace these local jobs?
(3) Would it not have been better
initially to have used this expenditure on the Collie B power station?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(3) Unless
my memory is failing me, last week the member for Collie and the Labor Party
were calling for this project to be abandoned.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Members! Premier, can you direct your answer through the chair
please.
Mr C.J. BARNETT :
The Labor Party, including the member for Collie, spent all last week bagging
this project and today it has called it a ''scandal'', to use the
term of members opposite. Members opposite have argued and we listened. We
thought about it and we closed the project, and now members opposite come back
and grizzle about it. For goodness sake! The project has closed, people have
been demobilised and they have lost their jobs; that is what members opposite
were calling for.
Mr M. McGowan : You're
verbalising again.
Mr C.J. BARNETT :
Oh, come on! The opposition cannot come in here, bag the project, say it is a
scandal and everything else, and then the government looks at it and says, yes,
it will close it, and now the opposition is complaining about it. I remind the
member for Collie that the last minister ever to build a coal-fired power
station was me.
my memory is failing me, last week the member for Collie and the Labor Party
were calling for this project to be abandoned.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Members! Premier, can you direct your answer through the chair
please.
Mr C.J. BARNETT :
The Labor Party, including the member for Collie, spent all last week bagging
this project and today it has called it a ''scandal'', to use the
term of members opposite. Members opposite have argued and we listened. We
thought about it and we closed the project, and now members opposite come back
and grizzle about it. For goodness sake! The project has closed, people have
been demobilised and they have lost their jobs; that is what members opposite
were calling for.
Mr M. McGowan : You're
verbalising again.
Mr C.J. BARNETT :
Oh, come on! The opposition cannot come in here, bag the project, say it is a
scandal and everything else, and then the government looks at it and says, yes,
it will close it, and now the opposition is complaining about it. I remind the
member for Collie that the last minister ever to build a coal-fired power
station was me.
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