❓ Ms. Davies asks about incentives to relocate interstate FIFO workers permanently to WA, particularly regional areas. The Premier acknowledges the potential economic benefits but states no incentives have been finalised, highlighting the opportunity presented by the hard border.
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FLY IN, FLY OUT WORKERS — INTERSTATE —
PERMANENT WA RESIDENTS
309. Ms M.J. DAVIES to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Thank you, Premier.
(1) Will the
Premier's state government prioritise the relocation of those willing
to come to WA permanently to regional areas?
(2) What
incentives will the state government offer those considering moving to WA?
PERMANENT WA RESIDENTS
309. Ms M.J. DAVIES to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Thank you, Premier.
(1) Will the
Premier's state government prioritise the relocation of those willing
to come to WA permanently to regional areas?
(2) What
incentives will the state government offer those considering moving to WA?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2) We have not resolved any incentives at this time
and that obviously has a degree of controversy attached to it. Clearly, having
lost most of our international migration, we need to work with the housing
industry to create the opportunities for demand. If people were to come here and
build a house in a regional town or in a suburb of Perth, that would be a great
net benefit to the state's economy. On top of that, there is the income
generated. The average mining worker receives an income way in excess of the
average weekly earnings of someone in Western Australia. Both of those things
are huge advantages to the state. We have not finally settled on what any
incentives may be or to what degree they will be. One of the things that has
occurred I think out of all of this is that people coming here, however they
stay or whatever their arrangements are, will actually have had a bit of a taste
of Western Australia and seen what it is like. Clearly, their partners or
spouses would probably appreciate that two days every fortnight or two days
every three weeks they are not on a plane flying back and forth across
the country. There is a historic opportunity here out of this, and we are
trying to grab it because it has not presented itself in this way before
because we have not made FIFO workers move
from the east to here in the way we have with the hard border—another
advantage of the hard border. The
hard border has many advantages for Western Australia. It is just a pity the
Liberal Party does not understand that. This is an advantage of the hard border
that was not foreseen, but it is something we want to take advantage of in the
interests of the Western Australian economy.
and that obviously has a degree of controversy attached to it. Clearly, having
lost most of our international migration, we need to work with the housing
industry to create the opportunities for demand. If people were to come here and
build a house in a regional town or in a suburb of Perth, that would be a great
net benefit to the state's economy. On top of that, there is the income
generated. The average mining worker receives an income way in excess of the
average weekly earnings of someone in Western Australia. Both of those things
are huge advantages to the state. We have not finally settled on what any
incentives may be or to what degree they will be. One of the things that has
occurred I think out of all of this is that people coming here, however they
stay or whatever their arrangements are, will actually have had a bit of a taste
of Western Australia and seen what it is like. Clearly, their partners or
spouses would probably appreciate that two days every fortnight or two days
every three weeks they are not on a plane flying back and forth across
the country. There is a historic opportunity here out of this, and we are
trying to grab it because it has not presented itself in this way before
because we have not made FIFO workers move
from the east to here in the way we have with the hard border—another
advantage of the hard border. The
hard border has many advantages for Western Australia. It is just a pity the
Liberal Party does not understand that. This is an advantage of the hard border
that was not foreseen, but it is something we want to take advantage of in the
interests of the Western Australian economy.
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