❓ The Treasurer's response to a question about Synergy outsourcing IT jobs to India deflects blame by highlighting the Leader of the Opposition's prior involvement in the Synergy reform agenda, questioning his credibility on the issue.
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SYNERGY — INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOBS TO INDIA
As a supplementary question, is the Treasurer saying that the government will use the maximum legal powers available to it to direct Synergy not to undertake this action? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
As a supplementary question, is the Treasurer saying that the government will use the maximum legal powers available to it to direct Synergy not to undertake this action? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
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I am saying that the Minister for Energy is currently seeking legal advice from the State Solicitor’s Office on the action that he, and I am assuming the government, can take on this matter. There is no secret. Let us not forget that this issue arose out of the Synergy reform agenda that the Leader of the Opposition signed off on when he was the Treasurer of Western Australia. If he had concerns about it — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I am saying that the Minister for Energy is currently seeking legal advice from the State Solicitor’s Office on the action that he, and I am assuming the government, can take on this matter. There is no secret. Let us not forget that this issue arose out of the Synergy reform agenda that the Leader of the Opposition signed off on when he was the Treasurer of Western Australia. If he had concerns about it — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
I am saying that the Minister for Energy is currently seeking legal advice from the State Solicitor’s Office on the action that he, and I am assuming the government, can take on this matter. There is no secret. Let us not forget that this issue arose out of the Synergy reform agenda that the Leader of the Opposition signed off on when he was the Treasurer of Western Australia. If he had concerns about it — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I am saying that the Minister for Energy is currently seeking legal advice from the State Solicitor’s Office on the action that he, and I am assuming the government, can take on this matter. There is no secret. Let us not forget that this issue arose out of the Synergy reform agenda that the Leader of the Opposition signed off on when he was the Treasurer of Western Australia. If he had concerns about it — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
I am saying that the Minister for Energy is currently seeking legal advice from the State Solicitor’s Office on the action that he, and I am assuming the government, can take on this matter. There is no secret. Let us not forget that this issue arose out of the Synergy reform agenda that the Leader of the Opposition signed off on when he was the Treasurer of Western Australia. If he had concerns about it — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Hold the bus! What has been happening with call centres around Australia for a long time? They have been outsourced and moved offshore. There is a litany of companies that have done it. One would have thought that had it been a concern, at the time the former Treasurer signed off on the business case he might have thought that he should hold the bus because it happens quite a bit, and that he had better take steps to protect Western Australian jobs. He did not do it then and he has no credibility questioning us now.
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