❓ Ms MacTiernan questions the Premier about the lack of a business case and transparency regarding the $700 million public investment in the Oakajee port project. The Premier defends the project, highlighting its importance and state government control, but avoids directly addressing scrutiny and the release of the agreement.
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OAKAJEE — PUBLIC INVESTMENT
I refer to the Premier’s admission that he has not developed a business case to underpin the $700 million public investment in Oakajee. I refer also to his refusal to release the state development agreement that he has signed with Oakajee Port and Rail, and to his admission that he will not be charging port users commercial rates in at least the first years of the port’s operation. (1) How does he propose that this $700 million public investment be scrutinised by this Parliament and by the people of Western Australia? (2) Will he support this project being referred to the Public Accounts Committee, as was done a decade ago with his earlier highly problematic attempt at this project? Mr C.J. BARNETT
I refer to the Premier’s admission that he has not developed a business case to underpin the $700 million public investment in Oakajee. I refer also to his refusal to release the state development agreement that he has signed with Oakajee Port and Rail, and to his admission that he will not be charging port users commercial rates in at least the first years of the port’s operation. (1) How does he propose that this $700 million public investment be scrutinised by this Parliament and by the people of Western Australia? (2) Will he support this project being referred to the Public Accounts Committee, as was done a decade ago with his earlier highly problematic attempt at this project? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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(1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
(1) How does he propose that this $700 million public investment be scrutinised by this Parliament and by the people of Western Australia? (2) Will he support this project being referred to the Public Accounts Committee, as was done a decade ago with his earlier highly problematic attempt at this project? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
(2) Will he support this project being referred to the Public Accounts Committee, as was done a decade ago with his earlier highly problematic attempt at this project? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
(1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
(1) How does he propose that this $700 million public investment be scrutinised by this Parliament and by the people of Western Australia? (2) Will he support this project being referred to the Public Accounts Committee, as was done a decade ago with his earlier highly problematic attempt at this project? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
(2) Will he support this project being referred to the Public Accounts Committee, as was done a decade ago with his earlier highly problematic attempt at this project? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
(1)-(2) I do not know why the Labor Party is so against development in the mid-west; I really do not understand it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : We actually did it. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; I cannot see it. But I am sure members opposite prepared the brochure. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been up there; it is still a wheat paddock with a few sheep running around. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : There’s $500 million worth of public investment. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I have been there and have looked out to sea looking for the harbour, but I could not see it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : That is because your Kingstream project failed. We took a different approach. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members opposite did a virtual development. Good on them; congratulations. We are about real projects, ones we can see. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : As I said yesterday, I think members, at least on this side of the house, understand how important it is to have a deep-sea port in the southern part of the state with a purpose-built industrial estate around it, including a wide buffer zone and all the opportunities that adds for a world-class site, hopefully, for new investment in value-adding projects. Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am answering a question from the member for Armadale. The member disagrees with our reasoning, and that is fine; she can disagree if she likes. We have taken the position that the construction, ownership, control and charging for access to that port will be with the state government. From day one, it will be a state government port as is every other port in Western Australia—Fremantle, Kwinana, Albany and so on. It will be a state government port. We will build and own the port as the developing proponent, and we will seek both a capacity and a user charge. The state government will allocate berth space and berth developments to proponents. The developer, OPR, will have a right to one, and an option — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Why can’t we see the agreement to make sure that’s true? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am getting to that point. The state government will own, control and charge for the port and it will own, control and charge for land and the use of the industrial estate. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is the business case? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Having said that, the public investment through the state and, hopefully, the commonwealth will be about a quarter of the overall project. All the development of the individual berths, conveyors, stockpile, ship loaders, power, gas pipelines, rail networks, rolling stock and so on will be private. We are taking state ownership and control over the critical, common user infrastructure. I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
I, along with the Minister for Transport, signed the state development agreement about six weeks ago. That agreement gives OPR the exclusive right now to proceed with the project. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s a secret agreement, is it? Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Goodness me! Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Is it or is it not a secret agreement? Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I am trying to answer the member’s question. Bearing in mind Mitsubishi is a major player, that requires Mitsubishi to undertake detailed engineering, financial and environmental assessment to the order of about $100 million on all the preliminary work. Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : So you say. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Is the Leader of the Opposition saying I am telling a fib? Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr E.S. Ripper : We want to see the agreement. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition asked about the business case. This will not involve a business case. A very detailed, sophisticated, engineering, technical and financial feasibility of the project will be done. I am confident, given, for example, last week under this government, approval has been finally given for the Gindalbie Metals project—something members opposite could not sort out over three years. Gindalbie represents the major foundation user of the port. Up to half the initial capacity will be used by Gindalbie, which has been sorted out in six months by this government when members opposite were miles away from sorting it out. They had gone nowhere on it. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Gindalbie is the foundation customer for this project. Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Why have I not made public the state development agreement? It contains, legitimately, a lot of confidential, commercially sensitive information. It is neither the property of the state nor of the making of the state; it is confidential technical and financial information that is quite properly the intellectual property of Oakajee Port and Rail. That is included within the state development agreement. I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
I imagine—it is my intention, and this is the way it will pan out—a state agreement will be undertaken for the development of Oakajee. That is the intention unless we go down a different path. It is my intention that we work up a state agreement act for the development of Oakajee. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Just like your last one! Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes. It will come to Parliament. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It fell over. It had nothing to do with us. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : A state agreement will go through the normal parliamentary process and be subject to the scrutiny of Parliament, as it should be.
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