❓ Ms Mettam questions the Premier on the cost of the Metronet advertising campaign given cost of living increases and a promise to cut advertising spending. The Premier defends the spending, citing past wasteful advertising by the Liberal Party and the need to inform the public about Metronet.
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1065. Ms L. METTAM to the Premier:
I
have a supplementary question. How does the Premier justify the
multimillion-dollar Metronet spin campaign to struggling Western Australians
who are suffering from the $850 cost-of-living increases that he inflicted,
especially given the Premier promised to cut advertising by $20 million a year
at the last election?
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member, the
supplementary has to be short, sharp and to do with the question you have
asked; not a monologue. Do you want to cut it back a bit?
Ms L. METTAM : Okay.
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1065. Ms L. METTAM to the Premier:
I
have a supplementary question. How does the Premier justify the
multimillion-dollar Metronet spin campaign to struggling Western Australians
who are suffering from the $850 cost-of-living increases that he inflicted,
especially given the Premier promised to cut advertising by $20 million a year
at the last election?
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member, the
supplementary has to be short, sharp and to do with the question you have
asked; not a monologue. Do you want to cut it back a bit?
Ms L. METTAM : Okay.
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I will answer that. As the Treasurer
has indicated, the government has delivered its commitment on advertising. As
we said when the Liberal Party was in office, there were some examples of
wasteful advertising. Fortunately, the Minister for Transport has given me an
example of it. I have here a picture that was produced of a USB in the shape of
a Metro Area Express tram!
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members, I want
to hear this.
Mr M. McGOWAN : There it is.
That is what the Liberal Party did. I regularly drive in the northern suburbs
and I am looking for MAX. I am still looking for MAX; I cannot find it! There
were investors who bought land in Mirrabooka on the basis that the MAX line was
going to be up there. They probably got one of these USBs and thought, ''This
is a great idea, we'll go and buy some land at Mirrabooka because MAX
is going to arrive.'' That is the sort of thing the Liberal Party did
when in office. Some of the advertising around royalties for regions, as I recall, was really quite extraordinary. This
government has cut the advertising spend. We do important advertising campaigns like fire awareness that the Minister for Emergency Services is
putting out now. Clearly, when four or five rail lines are built at once, it is
extremely disruptive. Combined with the biggest road spend in history, it is
obviously very disruptive and I think people want information about it and that
is what we are going to provide.
The SPEAKER : Thank you,
members. That is the end of question time.
has indicated, the government has delivered its commitment on advertising. As
we said when the Liberal Party was in office, there were some examples of
wasteful advertising. Fortunately, the Minister for Transport has given me an
example of it. I have here a picture that was produced of a USB in the shape of
a Metro Area Express tram!
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members, I want
to hear this.
Mr M. McGOWAN : There it is.
That is what the Liberal Party did. I regularly drive in the northern suburbs
and I am looking for MAX. I am still looking for MAX; I cannot find it! There
were investors who bought land in Mirrabooka on the basis that the MAX line was
going to be up there. They probably got one of these USBs and thought, ''This
is a great idea, we'll go and buy some land at Mirrabooka because MAX
is going to arrive.'' That is the sort of thing the Liberal Party did
when in office. Some of the advertising around royalties for regions, as I recall, was really quite extraordinary. This
government has cut the advertising spend. We do important advertising campaigns like fire awareness that the Minister for Emergency Services is
putting out now. Clearly, when four or five rail lines are built at once, it is
extremely disruptive. Combined with the biggest road spend in history, it is
obviously very disruptive and I think people want information about it and that
is what we are going to provide.
The SPEAKER : Thank you,
members. That is the end of question time.
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