❓ Opposition questions the Regional Development Minister about advertising campaigns promoting his programs in regional WA, particularly regarding cost and justification in light of service shortages. The Minister defends the campaigns and highlights investments in regional housing and parenting programs.
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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT — ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
(1) Has the minister prepared major new government-funded advertising campaigns extolling his programs to be run throughout country Western Australia? (2) If yes to (1), how many, and how much will these campaigns cost taxpayers? (3) Has the minister done focus group testing and polling that tells him that he needs to better sell his message in the regions, hence these taxpayer-funded campaigns? (4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS
(1) Has the minister prepared major new government-funded advertising campaigns extolling his programs to be run throughout country Western Australia? (2) If yes to (1), how many, and how much will these campaigns cost taxpayers? (3) Has the minister done focus group testing and polling that tells him that he needs to better sell his message in the regions, hence these taxpayer-funded campaigns? (4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS
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(1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(2) If yes to (1), how many, and how much will these campaigns cost taxpayers? (3) Has the minister done focus group testing and polling that tells him that he needs to better sell his message in the regions, hence these taxpayer-funded campaigns? (4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(3) Has the minister done focus group testing and polling that tells him that he needs to better sell his message in the regions, hence these taxpayer-funded campaigns? (4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(2) If yes to (1), how many, and how much will these campaigns cost taxpayers? (3) Has the minister done focus group testing and polling that tells him that he needs to better sell his message in the regions, hence these taxpayer-funded campaigns? (4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(3) Has the minister done focus group testing and polling that tells him that he needs to better sell his message in the regions, hence these taxpayer-funded campaigns? (4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(4) How does the minister justify this expenditure when reports emerge of a lack of child protection services in country towns such as Laverton? Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: (1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
(1)–(4) I am aware that the Department of Regional Development is planning some advertising to roll out in regional areas. The reason it is planning that — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In the budget at the end of last month, we announced a $75 million fund in contestable grants for the regional community, for small groups, communities, shires, development commissions and organisations to come to government with their plans to develop their communities and their infrastructure and to grow their regions. Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr M. McGowan : How much? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : At the moment, I do not know what the budget is, but I am sure that the member will put that question on notice. I am aware that that work is being done. I am also aware that the — Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Why don’t you provide it to the house at a later stage? Commit to providing it by the end of today’s business—be accountable! The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I am also aware that the department has done some polling on that. If the Leader of the Opposition puts that question on notice, I will happily answer it. Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Will you table that polling? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I think it is entirely appropriate for the Department of Regional Development to advertise a contestable funding round. The Leader of the Opposition spent the whole of the budget estimates period saying that there is no local decision-making in the royalties for regions plan. I can tell the Leader of the Opposition that this is a great opportunity for regional communities to look at projects like the foreshore redevelopment in Busselton, and the partnership with St John of God to deliver a coronary care unit in Bunbury—projects that will fundamentally change the community in regional Western Australia. People should know about that. I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
I also want to refer to the member for Rockingham’s claim that the provision of child protection services in Laverton should be a higher priority than this advertising campaign. I am now aware, after doing some more work on this, that the reason the Department for Child Protection can send a team leader to Laverton to address some of the issues that have arisen in that town is that there is now a government house—a Government Regional Officers’ Housing-funded house—for that person to go into. Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Your record on GROH is appalling—absolutely appalling! The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : In 2007, the Shire of Laverton put a proposal to government to build new houses in the community to enable it to attract child protection workers, police and teachers. No funding eventuated from the Labor government for that housing. This is the same Labor government under which the member for Rockingham was doing a $600 000 refurbishment of his ministerial office! Member for Rockingham, $600 000 would have built a house in Laverton so that the Department for Child Protection could put someone in Laverton! The member for Rockingham should be ashamed that he thought that $600 000 for a refurbishment of his ministerial office, when that was going to be knocked down because the lease had run out, was better than providing money for government housing in Laverton to attract staff. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : What royalties for regions has done, in partnership with the Department of Housing and the Minister for Housing, is fund 10 new houses for Laverton. These are houses for more police, more teachers and more child protection workers. What royalties for regions has also done is fund a $38 million responsible parenting program. That program is providing people on the ground, to work with families in the community. We will be spending $5 million of that $38 million in the Goldfields. The extra work of moving into Laverton will also be funded under that responsible parenting program. We recognise that these problems exist around the state. That is why there is a $38 million program to do it. Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
Under the local government fund, the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Shire of Laverton are working in partnership to build better facilities for people who come to Laverton from the lands. They are working on that project at the moment. This week, Patrick Hill, the shire president of Laverton, is in Canberra trying to get money to build a hostel for the itinerants and the people who travel to Laverton. What Patrick Hill will be able to do, member for Rockingham, when he sees this advertising on television that the member is criticising, is access a $75 million fund, and he will be able to come to the state government to partner with our housing in the town, our responsible parenting program, and the facilities that we are putting in place in Laverton. Patrick Hill in Laverton will be able to come to the government with his proposal to build that facility under the $75 million plan. I think it is important that the Patrick Hills of Western Australia know what our program is, know what funding they can access, and know the processes they need to go through to get that important funding.
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