❓ Question regarding Dick Smith's statement about Broome Airport needing an air traffic control tower and the associated costs for the Kimberley region. The Minister's response details concerns about the new national airspace system and the federal government's handling of the issue, leading to a heated exchange.
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Will the minister please explain the statement made by Dick Smith yesterday that the Broome airport will be required to have an air traffic control tower, and how much will it cost the people of the Kimberley? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. I understand her concern and puzzlement about the regulation of air services in Australia. It is an absolute dog’s breakfast. Members will be aware that over the past few months I have raised in this House my concern about the new national airspace system, which will have great ramifications for regional airports in Western Australia. That system abolishes the mandatory requirement for aircraft to carry radios and to use them when approaching airports. The federal Government has denied that there is any concern about the inappropriate importation of the American system into Western Australia. It has said that this will go ahead, and has been ignoring our concerns. Suddenly, out of the blue, a media statement was released yesterday by Dick Smith. He was not representing any organisation; it was a media release of Dick Smith himself, in which he announced that Broome Airport would get a full air traffic control tower. The statement conceded, just as the State Government has been saying, that the importation of the American system would simply not work in Broome. Rather than abandon the system, the federal Government has decided that Broome will need a full-on air traffic control tower. Guess who will pay for this? Mr C.J. Barnett: Didn’t you know what was going on? You are out of the loop. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I understand her concern and puzzlement about the regulation of air services in Australia. It is an absolute dog’s breakfast. Members will be aware that over the past few months I have raised in this House my concern about the new national airspace system, which will have great ramifications for regional airports in Western Australia. That system abolishes the mandatory requirement for aircraft to carry radios and to use them when approaching airports. The federal Government has denied that there is any concern about the inappropriate importation of the American system into Western Australia. It has said that this will go ahead, and has been ignoring our concerns. Suddenly, out of the blue, a media statement was released yesterday by Dick Smith. He was not representing any organisation; it was a media release of Dick Smith himself, in which he announced that Broome Airport would get a full air traffic control tower. The statement conceded, just as the State Government has been saying, that the importation of the American system would simply not work in Broome. Rather than abandon the system, the federal Government has decided that Broome will need a full-on air traffic control tower. Guess who will pay for this? Mr C.J. Barnett: Didn’t you know what was going on? You are out of the loop. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I understand her concern and puzzlement about the regulation of air services in Australia. It is an absolute dog’s breakfast. Members will be aware that over the past few months I have raised in this House my concern about the new national airspace system, which will have great ramifications for regional airports in Western Australia. That system abolishes the mandatory requirement for aircraft to carry radios and to use them when approaching airports. The federal Government has denied that there is any concern about the inappropriate importation of the American system into Western Australia. It has said that this will go ahead, and has been ignoring our concerns. Suddenly, out of the blue, a media statement was released yesterday by Dick Smith. He was not representing any organisation; it was a media release of Dick Smith himself, in which he announced that Broome Airport would get a full air traffic control tower. The statement conceded, just as the State Government has been saying, that the importation of the American system would simply not work in Broome. Rather than abandon the system, the federal Government has decided that Broome will need a full-on air traffic control tower. Guess who will pay for this? Mr C.J. Barnett: Didn’t you know what was going on? You are out of the loop. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Didn’t you know what was going on? You are out of the loop. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I understand her concern and puzzlement about the regulation of air services in Australia. It is an absolute dog’s breakfast. Members will be aware that over the past few months I have raised in this House my concern about the new national airspace system, which will have great ramifications for regional airports in Western Australia. That system abolishes the mandatory requirement for aircraft to carry radios and to use them when approaching airports. The federal Government has denied that there is any concern about the inappropriate importation of the American system into Western Australia. It has said that this will go ahead, and has been ignoring our concerns. Suddenly, out of the blue, a media statement was released yesterday by Dick Smith. He was not representing any organisation; it was a media release of Dick Smith himself, in which he announced that Broome Airport would get a full air traffic control tower. The statement conceded, just as the State Government has been saying, that the importation of the American system would simply not work in Broome. Rather than abandon the system, the federal Government has decided that Broome will need a full-on air traffic control tower. Guess who will pay for this? Mr C.J. Barnett: Didn’t you know what was going on? You are out of the loop. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I understand her concern and puzzlement about the regulation of air services in Australia. It is an absolute dog’s breakfast. Members will be aware that over the past few months I have raised in this House my concern about the new national airspace system, which will have great ramifications for regional airports in Western Australia. That system abolishes the mandatory requirement for aircraft to carry radios and to use them when approaching airports. The federal Government has denied that there is any concern about the inappropriate importation of the American system into Western Australia. It has said that this will go ahead, and has been ignoring our concerns. Suddenly, out of the blue, a media statement was released yesterday by Dick Smith. He was not representing any organisation; it was a media release of Dick Smith himself, in which he announced that Broome Airport would get a full air traffic control tower. The statement conceded, just as the State Government has been saying, that the importation of the American system would simply not work in Broome. Rather than abandon the system, the federal Government has decided that Broome will need a full-on air traffic control tower. Guess who will pay for this? Mr C.J. Barnett: Didn’t you know what was going on? You are out of the loop. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Didn’t you know what was going on? You are out of the loop. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: One thing that can be said about the member for Cottesloe is that, in the light of recent medical research, he will never get prostate cancer. He may go blind, but he will never get prostate cancer. Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr M.G. House: Mr Speaker, you should take some action about that. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I am simply trying to set out a very serious issue. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: If some members were offended by my remark, I will withdraw it. Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr R.F. Johnson: Is this your code of conduct, Premier? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Literally hundreds of Australian men die of cancer every year, yet the Labor Party trivialises cancer. That tells us something about the standards of a minister who does not even know what is going on with an international airport. The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: You don’t offend me, but you offend people who are suffering with prostate cancer. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: You can never ask for protection again in this House. You have made it open slather with a remark like that. You will rue the day with a comment like that. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr M.G. House: You want a code of conduct in here, Premier. Do something about it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Members! The level of interjection at the moment is such that question time cannot continue until members cease to interject. Some members have clearly taken offence at what the minister said, but not the member at whom the comment was directed. I did not think the remark was unparliamentary; otherwise, I would have called the minister to order. Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: It shouldn’t have been up to him to do it. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: I will just explain. I am keen to provide this answer. I find that very difficult with the sorts of insults that are constantly fired by the Leader of the Opposition. I want to get back to the case in point. A media statement was released yesterday by Mr Dick Smith stating that Broome Airport was about to get an air traffic control tower. We rang the federal minister and asked what the story was and whether this was federal policy. Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: No-one is listening to you now; you have lost the plot. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister’s office was able to say only - Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr P.G. Pendal: The Premier is too embarrassed to say anything. Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: He will do nothing. If there is any reaction, he does nothing. The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the member for South Perth for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Several members interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Mr C.J. Barnett: He is the do-nothing Premier. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The federal minister was not able to tell us whether this statement represented federal government policy. We asked whether it was a statement of the minister and were told that we should just understand that it was a statement of Mr Dick Smith. We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
We said, “Do you agree with this policy?” They said, “Oh, probably.” We then asked about airports other than Broome, which have exactly the same problems - Karratha, Port Hedland, Newman and Kalgoorlie. We were told it may also apply to them. The cost that will be imposed on all of those communities, if they are to have air traffic control towers, is $20 per person per trip into those areas. This will impose an additional cost burden on regional air services - we all acknowledge that they are already too expensive - and it will apply to tourist operators and anyone living in those regional communities. This completely inappropriate American system will be imposed on Western Australia. I urge members opposite, who may have some influence with the federal National Party Minister for Transport, to try to get some rationality and sense into the regulation of aviation services in Western Australia.
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