❓ The Minister confirms the government's commitment to the Peel Deviation project, highlighting its national importance and the need for federal funding. However, federal funding is uncertain due to prior commitments.
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The minister is aware that one of the highest priority projects for the people of Mandurah and the south west is the construction of the Peel deviation. Will the minister confirm the Government’s commitment to this project and its current status? Mr Marshall: This will be good. Ms MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for Mandurah for his relentless pursuit of this issue. I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Mr Marshall: This will be good. Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Mandurah for his relentless pursuit of this issue. I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Mandurah for his relentless pursuit of this issue. I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
I thank the member for Mandurah for his relentless pursuit of this issue. I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Mr Marshall: This will be good. Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Mandurah for his relentless pursuit of this issue. I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Mandurah for his relentless pursuit of this issue. I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
I thank the member for Mandurah for his relentless pursuit of this issue. I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
I note the member for Dawesville making a few interjections in this regard. After only eight days in opposition, after he had spent eight years in government, the member started bleating about this Government’s failure to build the Peel deviation. Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Mr Marshall: What will you do about it? Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
Ms MacTIERNAN: We will do a lot more than the previous Government. This is a major project that will cost in the order of $340 million. Even the first portion of the project will cost around $165 million. This project is designed to build a road of national importance and requires federal assistance. As I have explained, this Government has two key projects for which it wants assistance from the federal Government. Unlike the previous Government, we did not go to the federal Government with a long shopping list that had no clarity or vision. We have made it clear that the next two projects we believe are of primary national importance are the upgrade of the national highway in the Kimberley and the Peel deviation. To that end, late last year I made extensive submissions to the relevant federal minister. We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
We are conducting forward planning because it is a big project. This project must be started by around 2006-07. We would like to start negotiations for federal funding to commence that road project. Unfortunately, we have received a letter from the federal minister who said that even after 2006-07, all federal moneys have been fully allocated and that future allocations will be directed towards meeting the federal Government’s election commitments. Unfortunately, this pork-barrelling exercise has meant that the Peel deviation will probably not get the federal assistance that it so rightfully deserves. I hoped that a few federal members of the coalition would be able to get assistance from the federal Government. However, it appears that the members of the coalition in Canberra are as ineffective as are members of the state Opposition.
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