❓ Question regarding amending public sector ethics codes to reflect standards of parliamentarians. Answer devolves into accusations against the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Opposition, referencing past events and alleged misconduct.
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MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY - ETHICAL STANDARDS
Will codes of ethics in the public sector be amended to accommodate ethical standards demonstrated by members of this house? Mr E.S. RIPPER
Will codes of ethics in the public sector be amended to accommodate ethical standards demonstrated by members of this house? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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Last time this house sat, albeit in another part of this building, I discussed the deplorable record of the Leader of the Opposition on standards. What about the standards demonstrated by that conspirator of the car park, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition? I will give the house a short history lesson, because we are told that history is very important in the curriculum these days. Let us go back to a meeting in Busselton in mid-2003 when the member for Vasse and Noel Crichton-Browne discussed the Smiths Beach development, preselection for the seat of Vasse and the aspirations of the now member for Vasse. According to evidence given to the Corruption and Crime Commission, at page 545, lines 25 and 26, and page 546, lines 1 to 5, that disgraced lobbyist gave the member for Vasse encouragement for his career and told him that he did not have to worry about his preselection. Shortly afterwards, having that assurance from Noel Crichton-Browne in his pocket, the now member for Vasse announced that he would seek preselection. In December 2003 he actually won it. It is interesting to look at the branches and how they voted, because although the member for Vasse won preselection for the seat of Vasse, he did not win the support of the Busselton branch, which voted for that fine member of Parliament Bernie Masters. Keith Rose was the president of the Busselton branch. I do not know Keith Rose but he must be one of the most perceptive people in Western Australia. He said at the time that it was felt that it was an act of extreme stupidity to throw away a man with eight years’ experience and a 100 per cent demonstrated commitment and energy to the Liberal Party in exchange for a relative newcomer with no long-term commitment to anything. Does that ring a bell for the member for Kalgoorlie? Is “no long-term commitment for anything” an accurate description of the member for Vasse? Mr Rose went on to claim that the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party were instrumental in dumping Bernie Masters. Surprise, surprise! Who is linked to these branches? It is none other than the hyphen himself, Noel Crichton-Browne. The long-serving president of the Dunsborough branch was Mr Hammond, who had a real difficulty, as members might remember, with Yallingup land. He wanted to rip off the Crown, and we had to put a bill through this Parliament to stop him doing that. Noel Crichton-Browne was his adviser in those circumstances. That branch, with Mr Hammond and its links to Noel Crichton-Browne, made complaints against Senator Sue Knowles after she had made complaints about Noel Crichton-Browne. Of course, Sue Knowles was then expelled from the Liberal Party. Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Although she has stepped down from Parliament, Sue Knowles was a senator for Western Australia for 20 years. She was not expelled from the Liberal Party. I ask that the Minister Assisting the Minister for Public Sector Management withdraw and apologise to an honourable senator. The SPEAKER : I do not know what the minister actually said, but I am sure that he wants to be accurate. I am sure that he will correct it, if he said something that was inaccurate. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr E.S. RIPPER : Sue Knowles’ political career certainly ended. I am prepared to be corrected on the way in which it ended, but I do know this: she was a victim of the hyphen and the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party. Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: Last time this house sat, albeit in another part of this building, I discussed the deplorable record of the Leader of the Opposition on standards. What about the standards demonstrated by that conspirator of the car park, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition? I will give the house a short history lesson, because we are told that history is very important in the curriculum these days. Let us go back to a meeting in Busselton in mid-2003 when the member for Vasse and Noel Crichton-Browne discussed the Smiths Beach development, preselection for the seat of Vasse and the aspirations of the now member for Vasse. According to evidence given to the Corruption and Crime Commission, at page 545, lines 25 and 26, and page 546, lines 1 to 5, that disgraced lobbyist gave the member for Vasse encouragement for his career and told him that he did not have to worry about his preselection. Shortly afterwards, having that assurance from Noel Crichton-Browne in his pocket, the now member for Vasse announced that he would seek preselection. In December 2003 he actually won it. It is interesting to look at the branches and how they voted, because although the member for Vasse won preselection for the seat of Vasse, he did not win the support of the Busselton branch, which voted for that fine member of Parliament Bernie Masters. Keith Rose was the president of the Busselton branch. I do not know Keith Rose but he must be one of the most perceptive people in Western Australia. He said at the time that it was felt that it was an act of extreme stupidity to throw away a man with eight years’ experience and a 100 per cent demonstrated commitment and energy to the Liberal Party in exchange for a relative newcomer with no long-term commitment to anything. Does that ring a bell for the member for Kalgoorlie? Is “no long-term commitment for anything” an accurate description of the member for Vasse? Mr Rose went on to claim that the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party were instrumental in dumping Bernie Masters. Surprise, surprise! Who is linked to these branches? It is none other than the hyphen himself, Noel Crichton-Browne. The long-serving president of the Dunsborough branch was Mr Hammond, who had a real difficulty, as members might remember, with Yallingup land. He wanted to rip off the Crown, and we had to put a bill through this Parliament to stop him doing that. Noel Crichton-Browne was his adviser in those circumstances. That branch, with Mr Hammond and its links to Noel Crichton-Browne, made complaints against Senator Sue Knowles after she had made complaints about Noel Crichton-Browne. Of course, Sue Knowles was then expelled from the Liberal Party. Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Although she has stepped down from Parliament, Sue Knowles was a senator for Western Australia for 20 years. She was not expelled from the Liberal Party. I ask that the Minister Assisting the Minister for Public Sector Management withdraw and apologise to an honourable senator. The SPEAKER : I do not know what the minister actually said, but I am sure that he wants to be accurate. I am sure that he will correct it, if he said something that was inaccurate. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr E.S. RIPPER : Sue Knowles’ political career certainly ended. I am prepared to be corrected on the way in which it ended, but I do know this: she was a victim of the hyphen and the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party. Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Last time this house sat, albeit in another part of this building, I discussed the deplorable record of the Leader of the Opposition on standards. What about the standards demonstrated by that conspirator of the car park, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition? I will give the house a short history lesson, because we are told that history is very important in the curriculum these days. Let us go back to a meeting in Busselton in mid-2003 when the member for Vasse and Noel Crichton-Browne discussed the Smiths Beach development, preselection for the seat of Vasse and the aspirations of the now member for Vasse. According to evidence given to the Corruption and Crime Commission, at page 545, lines 25 and 26, and page 546, lines 1 to 5, that disgraced lobbyist gave the member for Vasse encouragement for his career and told him that he did not have to worry about his preselection. Shortly afterwards, having that assurance from Noel Crichton-Browne in his pocket, the now member for Vasse announced that he would seek preselection. In December 2003 he actually won it. It is interesting to look at the branches and how they voted, because although the member for Vasse won preselection for the seat of Vasse, he did not win the support of the Busselton branch, which voted for that fine member of Parliament Bernie Masters. Keith Rose was the president of the Busselton branch. I do not know Keith Rose but he must be one of the most perceptive people in Western Australia. He said at the time that it was felt that it was an act of extreme stupidity to throw away a man with eight years’ experience and a 100 per cent demonstrated commitment and energy to the Liberal Party in exchange for a relative newcomer with no long-term commitment to anything. Does that ring a bell for the member for Kalgoorlie? Is “no long-term commitment for anything” an accurate description of the member for Vasse? Mr Rose went on to claim that the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party were instrumental in dumping Bernie Masters. Surprise, surprise! Who is linked to these branches? It is none other than the hyphen himself, Noel Crichton-Browne. The long-serving president of the Dunsborough branch was Mr Hammond, who had a real difficulty, as members might remember, with Yallingup land. He wanted to rip off the Crown, and we had to put a bill through this Parliament to stop him doing that. Noel Crichton-Browne was his adviser in those circumstances. That branch, with Mr Hammond and its links to Noel Crichton-Browne, made complaints against Senator Sue Knowles after she had made complaints about Noel Crichton-Browne. Of course, Sue Knowles was then expelled from the Liberal Party. Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Although she has stepped down from Parliament, Sue Knowles was a senator for Western Australia for 20 years. She was not expelled from the Liberal Party. I ask that the Minister Assisting the Minister for Public Sector Management withdraw and apologise to an honourable senator. The SPEAKER : I do not know what the minister actually said, but I am sure that he wants to be accurate. I am sure that he will correct it, if he said something that was inaccurate. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr E.S. RIPPER : Sue Knowles’ political career certainly ended. I am prepared to be corrected on the way in which it ended, but I do know this: she was a victim of the hyphen and the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party. Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I do not know what the minister actually said, but I am sure that he wants to be accurate. I am sure that he will correct it, if he said something that was inaccurate. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr E.S. RIPPER : Sue Knowles’ political career certainly ended. I am prepared to be corrected on the way in which it ended, but I do know this: she was a victim of the hyphen and the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party. Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: Last time this house sat, albeit in another part of this building, I discussed the deplorable record of the Leader of the Opposition on standards. What about the standards demonstrated by that conspirator of the car park, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition? I will give the house a short history lesson, because we are told that history is very important in the curriculum these days. Let us go back to a meeting in Busselton in mid-2003 when the member for Vasse and Noel Crichton-Browne discussed the Smiths Beach development, preselection for the seat of Vasse and the aspirations of the now member for Vasse. According to evidence given to the Corruption and Crime Commission, at page 545, lines 25 and 26, and page 546, lines 1 to 5, that disgraced lobbyist gave the member for Vasse encouragement for his career and told him that he did not have to worry about his preselection. Shortly afterwards, having that assurance from Noel Crichton-Browne in his pocket, the now member for Vasse announced that he would seek preselection. In December 2003 he actually won it. It is interesting to look at the branches and how they voted, because although the member for Vasse won preselection for the seat of Vasse, he did not win the support of the Busselton branch, which voted for that fine member of Parliament Bernie Masters. Keith Rose was the president of the Busselton branch. I do not know Keith Rose but he must be one of the most perceptive people in Western Australia. He said at the time that it was felt that it was an act of extreme stupidity to throw away a man with eight years’ experience and a 100 per cent demonstrated commitment and energy to the Liberal Party in exchange for a relative newcomer with no long-term commitment to anything. Does that ring a bell for the member for Kalgoorlie? Is “no long-term commitment for anything” an accurate description of the member for Vasse? Mr Rose went on to claim that the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party were instrumental in dumping Bernie Masters. Surprise, surprise! Who is linked to these branches? It is none other than the hyphen himself, Noel Crichton-Browne. The long-serving president of the Dunsborough branch was Mr Hammond, who had a real difficulty, as members might remember, with Yallingup land. He wanted to rip off the Crown, and we had to put a bill through this Parliament to stop him doing that. Noel Crichton-Browne was his adviser in those circumstances. That branch, with Mr Hammond and its links to Noel Crichton-Browne, made complaints against Senator Sue Knowles after she had made complaints about Noel Crichton-Browne. Of course, Sue Knowles was then expelled from the Liberal Party. Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Although she has stepped down from Parliament, Sue Knowles was a senator for Western Australia for 20 years. She was not expelled from the Liberal Party. I ask that the Minister Assisting the Minister for Public Sector Management withdraw and apologise to an honourable senator. The SPEAKER : I do not know what the minister actually said, but I am sure that he wants to be accurate. I am sure that he will correct it, if he said something that was inaccurate. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr E.S. RIPPER : Sue Knowles’ political career certainly ended. I am prepared to be corrected on the way in which it ended, but I do know this: she was a victim of the hyphen and the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party. Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Last time this house sat, albeit in another part of this building, I discussed the deplorable record of the Leader of the Opposition on standards. What about the standards demonstrated by that conspirator of the car park, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition? I will give the house a short history lesson, because we are told that history is very important in the curriculum these days. Let us go back to a meeting in Busselton in mid-2003 when the member for Vasse and Noel Crichton-Browne discussed the Smiths Beach development, preselection for the seat of Vasse and the aspirations of the now member for Vasse. According to evidence given to the Corruption and Crime Commission, at page 545, lines 25 and 26, and page 546, lines 1 to 5, that disgraced lobbyist gave the member for Vasse encouragement for his career and told him that he did not have to worry about his preselection. Shortly afterwards, having that assurance from Noel Crichton-Browne in his pocket, the now member for Vasse announced that he would seek preselection. In December 2003 he actually won it. It is interesting to look at the branches and how they voted, because although the member for Vasse won preselection for the seat of Vasse, he did not win the support of the Busselton branch, which voted for that fine member of Parliament Bernie Masters. Keith Rose was the president of the Busselton branch. I do not know Keith Rose but he must be one of the most perceptive people in Western Australia. He said at the time that it was felt that it was an act of extreme stupidity to throw away a man with eight years’ experience and a 100 per cent demonstrated commitment and energy to the Liberal Party in exchange for a relative newcomer with no long-term commitment to anything. Does that ring a bell for the member for Kalgoorlie? Is “no long-term commitment for anything” an accurate description of the member for Vasse? Mr Rose went on to claim that the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party were instrumental in dumping Bernie Masters. Surprise, surprise! Who is linked to these branches? It is none other than the hyphen himself, Noel Crichton-Browne. The long-serving president of the Dunsborough branch was Mr Hammond, who had a real difficulty, as members might remember, with Yallingup land. He wanted to rip off the Crown, and we had to put a bill through this Parliament to stop him doing that. Noel Crichton-Browne was his adviser in those circumstances. That branch, with Mr Hammond and its links to Noel Crichton-Browne, made complaints against Senator Sue Knowles after she had made complaints about Noel Crichton-Browne. Of course, Sue Knowles was then expelled from the Liberal Party. Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Although she has stepped down from Parliament, Sue Knowles was a senator for Western Australia for 20 years. She was not expelled from the Liberal Party. I ask that the Minister Assisting the Minister for Public Sector Management withdraw and apologise to an honourable senator. The SPEAKER : I do not know what the minister actually said, but I am sure that he wants to be accurate. I am sure that he will correct it, if he said something that was inaccurate. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr E.S. RIPPER : Sue Knowles’ political career certainly ended. I am prepared to be corrected on the way in which it ended, but I do know this: she was a victim of the hyphen and the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party. Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I do not know what the minister actually said, but I am sure that he wants to be accurate. I am sure that he will correct it, if he said something that was inaccurate. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr E.S. RIPPER : Sue Knowles’ political career certainly ended. I am prepared to be corrected on the way in which it ended, but I do know this: she was a victim of the hyphen and the Dunsborough and Yallingup branches of the Liberal Party. Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr C.J. Barnett : You talk about parliamentary standards and make that sort of accusation. You are a disgrace! The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr T. Buswell : What about Hon Adele Farina’s selection! The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the second time. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Deputy Leader of the Opposition does not want me to get to the critical point. The critical point is that the disgraced lobbyist was instrumental in the member for Vasse’s preselection, and that the disgraced lobbyist wanted something in return. What did he want in return? He wanted the assistance of the member for Vasse to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of the Canal Rocks development, against the publicly stated views of the member for Vasse and against the views of his own community. What did the member for Vasse do? He said, “Thank you, Noel; thank you for my preselection. What do you want, Noel? Yes, I will do it; here are some names.” I know why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would do that; he owed his preselection to Noel Crichton-Browne. The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The history goes a lot further than 2003, because in the latest hearings of the Corruption and Crime Commission there is evidence of continuing association between Noel Crichton-Browne and the member for Vasse. I will quote from transcript 677, revealed at the CCC hearing on 4 December 2006. This is what Noel Crichton-Browne said in a telephone call to Brian Burke on 13 September 2006 - I’ll tell you - Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : They do not want to hear it. The transcript states - I’ll tell you when I see her over lunch what I said to Troy about the whole thing . . . Note the important part of that quote: “what I said to Troy about the whole thing”. In September 2006, Noel Crichton-Browne, a paid lobbyist for Canal Rocks and person of interest in a corruption inquiry, is still discussing Busselton shire council issues with the member for Vasse. This is not ancient history; this is September 2006. The member for Vasse is demonstrating standards by which he conspires with a person of interest in a corruption inquiry to cook up their evidence to the inquiry, by which he helps to stack the Busselton shire council in favour of developers, and he continues to have discussions with that paid lobbyist. Why? One has to go back to the preselection in 2003. Who got him the job against the incumbent, the sitting member? Who got him the job? Noel Crichton-Browne is the person who got him the job, and the Leader of the Opposition is too weak and too pathetic to do anything about it. When asked about it, he says that what Troy Buswell does is Troy Buswell’s business. The opposition has no credibility whatsoever in standards. I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
I have given a long answer to this question, but there is a short answer. The short answer is that the public sector code of ethics will not be corrupted to allow the abysmal standards demonstrated by the member for Vasse to exist in the public sector. The government will not tolerate those sorts of standards in the public sector, and the Leader of the Opposition should not tolerate them on his side of politics in this Parliament. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! The level of interjections at that point was such that I could not give the call to the member for Stirling. I am sure that members wish question time to continue in this chamber, which does not usually hear this sort of noise! Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the third time.
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