❓ Mr. Murray questions Minister Redman about the review of the Genetically Modified Crops Free Areas Act, highlighting public opposition and urging consideration of WA community views. The Minister acknowledges diverse viewpoints but avoids speculating on the review's outcome, referencing submissions from outside WA and criticising the opposition's stance.
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS FREE AREAS ACT — REVIEW
As a supplementary question — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members to my right! Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN
As a supplementary question — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members to my right! Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN
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I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members to my right! Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
The SPEAKER : Members to my right! Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members to my right! Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
The SPEAKER : Members to my right! Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr M.P. MURRAY : Nearly 89 per cent of the submissions to this review oppose GM crops. Will the minister not listen to the Western Australian community, including the shires in his heartland that oppose GM crops, such as Manjimup and Nannup? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
I thank the member for the supplementary question. I concur that there is a range of viewpoints and people are making submissions at present. I certainly will not speculate on a review that is yet to happen — Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr M.P. Murray interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
The SPEAKER : Member for Collie-Preston, I gave you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question. I want to hear the minister’s answer. I do not want to hear further interjections from you. I formally call you for the second time. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I simply make the point that the review is underway. I will not speculate on the findings of the review or on my response to the review. The review has been triggered by the act. A process is underway. I certainly encourage the member to read the submissions that are made. It is interesting that a range of submissions that have come from the eastern states are standardised letters from people who have nothing, and should have nothing, to do with the decisions that we make in Western Australia. The opposition’s position on GM crops is interesting. Some interesting comments have been made by Hon John Brumby, the Victorian Premier. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Members on both sides of the house have heard me say this before. If you want question time to be successful, I ask that ministers being asked questions be more efficient in their presentation of information—that is, shorten the answer a little. For those members who continue to interject, you make question time inoperable at times. Minister, I ask you to reach a rapid conclusion to your answer. Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I will not embarrass the member any further by referring to comments made by people in other states and/or the federal government, except to say that the opposition stands alone on this matter and it needs to have a close look at its policy position.
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