❓ Mr. Carey asks the Premier about the revitalisation of the East Perth Power Station and its potential economic benefits. The Premier outlines the government's investment and vision for the site's redevelopment, highlighting job creation, tourism, and private sector investment.
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EAST PERTH POWER STATION
332. Mr J.N. CAREY to the Premier:
I refer to the significant
announcement on the weekend that the state government will kickstart the
revitalisation of East Perth power station and ensure the entire site can be
redeveloped. Can the Premier please outline how this decision will provide
certainty for business, attract investment, and create more jobs for Western Australians?
332. Mr J.N. CAREY to the Premier:
I refer to the significant
announcement on the weekend that the state government will kickstart the
revitalisation of East Perth power station and ensure the entire site can be
redeveloped. Can the Premier please outline how this decision will provide
certainty for business, attract investment, and create more jobs for Western Australians?
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Thank you, member for Perth, and
thank you for joining me on Sunday at East Perth power station. The power
station itself was built back in 1904, but it has remained empty since 1981,
nearly 40 years. In 2003, the then Labor government invested a significant
amount of money to ensure that the building was maintained and did not fall
over, in effect. It put a proper roof on it, and things of that nature, so that
that heritage building could remain available for future opportunities.
We announced on Sunday that in
tomorrow's state budget, $30 million will be made available to fix some
of the power infrastructure on the site. If members go to the site, they will
see a switchyard, an ATCO Gas presser reduction facility, and overhead
transmission lines in front of the site. All those issues need to be dealt with
as part of a redevelopment of the site. I would love to see that site
redeveloped. If members go to that site and walk around the power station, it
is actually quite an extraordinary building inside. We can see the industrial
heritage of Western Australia and Australia writ large inside that building.
Making that building open and available to all Western Australians and
Australians, and to tourists, and providing some unique tourism opportunities
using that existing building, is exactly what we want to do. That is the plan,
and that is why we are investing that $30 million. It is a relatively modest
investment that will secure hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars
of private sector investment in the land surrounding it. So it is a very
sensible way of going forward, to create jobs, create life, attract tourists, create
opportunities, and create a precinct around the redeveloped East Perth power
station and all those other things that are available because of the
opportunity there. I was very pleased to announce that $30 million investment,
with the member for Perth—both members for Perth, actually; the federal
member for Perth was there as well. We look forward to activity, life and
opportunities being developed at that site over the coming years for what, as I
said, is a reasonably modest investment to unlock hundreds of millions, if not
billions, of dollars of private sector investment.
Obviously, it is very disappointing
that an expressions-of-interest process was launched in 2015 by the last
government but has languished without any activity over the period since. Under
this government, as we repair the state's finances, we will take these
opportunities to create jobs, life, vitality and tourism in Western Australia.
Would it not be great if that site was used as an extraordinary new art gallery
or museum, perhaps something in the nature
of the MONA museum in Tasmania, an Indigenous art gallery, or perhaps a national
Indigenous museum . That is all because of what this government, the
Minister for Lands and the member for Perth are doing to make sure those
opportunities are open to the state.
thank you for joining me on Sunday at East Perth power station. The power
station itself was built back in 1904, but it has remained empty since 1981,
nearly 40 years. In 2003, the then Labor government invested a significant
amount of money to ensure that the building was maintained and did not fall
over, in effect. It put a proper roof on it, and things of that nature, so that
that heritage building could remain available for future opportunities.
We announced on Sunday that in
tomorrow's state budget, $30 million will be made available to fix some
of the power infrastructure on the site. If members go to the site, they will
see a switchyard, an ATCO Gas presser reduction facility, and overhead
transmission lines in front of the site. All those issues need to be dealt with
as part of a redevelopment of the site. I would love to see that site
redeveloped. If members go to that site and walk around the power station, it
is actually quite an extraordinary building inside. We can see the industrial
heritage of Western Australia and Australia writ large inside that building.
Making that building open and available to all Western Australians and
Australians, and to tourists, and providing some unique tourism opportunities
using that existing building, is exactly what we want to do. That is the plan,
and that is why we are investing that $30 million. It is a relatively modest
investment that will secure hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars
of private sector investment in the land surrounding it. So it is a very
sensible way of going forward, to create jobs, create life, attract tourists, create
opportunities, and create a precinct around the redeveloped East Perth power
station and all those other things that are available because of the
opportunity there. I was very pleased to announce that $30 million investment,
with the member for Perth—both members for Perth, actually; the federal
member for Perth was there as well. We look forward to activity, life and
opportunities being developed at that site over the coming years for what, as I
said, is a reasonably modest investment to unlock hundreds of millions, if not
billions, of dollars of private sector investment.
Obviously, it is very disappointing
that an expressions-of-interest process was launched in 2015 by the last
government but has languished without any activity over the period since. Under
this government, as we repair the state's finances, we will take these
opportunities to create jobs, life, vitality and tourism in Western Australia.
Would it not be great if that site was used as an extraordinary new art gallery
or museum, perhaps something in the nature
of the MONA museum in Tasmania, an Indigenous art gallery, or perhaps a national
Indigenous museum . That is all because of what this government, the
Minister for Lands and the member for Perth are doing to make sure those
opportunities are open to the state.
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