❓ Opposition questions the Treasurer about the state's rising debt and lack of a debt repayment plan. The Treasurer responds vaguely, blaming the previous government and citing changing times, leading to a point of order regarding disrespectful language.
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STATE FINANCES
I have a supplementary question. The Treasurer may consider the finances of the state a joke, but it is something we take quite seriously. In respect of the Treasurer’s grand plan that we are still yet to see, will the Treasurer also include a comprehensive debt repayment plan to bring down the debt levels that are now breaching $20 billion? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
I have a supplementary question. The Treasurer may consider the finances of the state a joke, but it is something we take quite seriously. In respect of the Treasurer’s grand plan that we are still yet to see, will the Treasurer also include a comprehensive debt repayment plan to bring down the debt levels that are now breaching $20 billion? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
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We have embraced some innovative approaches to managing the state’s finances, but I will not go back through them all. As I said, it will take time for those to bed in. It will take time; that is just a fact of life. Mr E.S. Ripper : You haven’t changed a single one! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: We have embraced some innovative approaches to managing the state’s finances, but I will not go back through them all. As I said, it will take time for those to bed in. It will take time; that is just a fact of life. Mr E.S. Ripper : You haven’t changed a single one! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
We have embraced some innovative approaches to managing the state’s finances, but I will not go back through them all. As I said, it will take time for those to bed in. It will take time; that is just a fact of life. Mr E.S. Ripper : You haven’t changed a single one! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
Mr E.S. Ripper : You haven’t changed a single one! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: We have embraced some innovative approaches to managing the state’s finances, but I will not go back through them all. As I said, it will take time for those to bed in. It will take time; that is just a fact of life. Mr E.S. Ripper : You haven’t changed a single one! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
We have embraced some innovative approaches to managing the state’s finances, but I will not go back through them all. As I said, it will take time for those to bed in. It will take time; that is just a fact of life. Mr E.S. Ripper : You haven’t changed a single one! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
Mr E.S. Ripper : You haven’t changed a single one! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what we will do. I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what has happened. I will tell you what has happened, Dr Phil! Times have changed. Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the Treasurer may have an overdeveloped olfactory sense, but he does not seem to have a memory for your advice to him yesterday, which was that members should be addressed by their correct title and not by his curious little nicknames. The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER : I advise the Treasurer to take the direction I gave this house yesterday. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker, and my humble apologies for straying from that direction. I did become a tad overexcited and I do apologise. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition has noticed that times have changed. We do not have the luxury of falling back on ballooning budget surpluses; we have the challenge of managing declining state finances and the single biggest challenge is turning around the culture that members opposite enabled to flow right through the public service in Western Australia.
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