❓ The Treasurer questions the opposition's ability to manage the WA economy, highlighting past budget deficits and internal conflicts within the opposition, suggesting their proposed expenditure review committee lacks credibility and suitable members.
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OPPOSITION’S ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
Can the Treasurer please advise the house if the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee will give the community confidence in the opposition’s ability to manage the Western Australian economy? Mr E.S. RIPPER
Can the Treasurer please advise the house if the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee will give the community confidence in the opposition’s ability to manage the Western Australian economy? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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I thank the member for the question. There is a short answer, but I prefer to give a somewhat longer answer on this occasion. I welcome the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition that the opposition will establish an expenditure review committee. Boy, does it not need one? The opposition’s record in government was five budgets out of eight in the red. If the opposition needs some reminding of its record in government, I will again quote from the letter by the former Under Treasurer John Langoulant to Richard Court. This letter is worth quoting over and over again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: I thank the member for the question. There is a short answer, but I prefer to give a somewhat longer answer on this occasion. I welcome the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition that the opposition will establish an expenditure review committee. Boy, does it not need one? The opposition’s record in government was five budgets out of eight in the red. If the opposition needs some reminding of its record in government, I will again quote from the letter by the former Under Treasurer John Langoulant to Richard Court. This letter is worth quoting over and over again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
I thank the member for the question. There is a short answer, but I prefer to give a somewhat longer answer on this occasion. I welcome the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition that the opposition will establish an expenditure review committee. Boy, does it not need one? The opposition’s record in government was five budgets out of eight in the red. If the opposition needs some reminding of its record in government, I will again quote from the letter by the former Under Treasurer John Langoulant to Richard Court. This letter is worth quoting over and over again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
. . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
“Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.”
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: I thank the member for the question. There is a short answer, but I prefer to give a somewhat longer answer on this occasion. I welcome the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition that the opposition will establish an expenditure review committee. Boy, does it not need one? The opposition’s record in government was five budgets out of eight in the red. If the opposition needs some reminding of its record in government, I will again quote from the letter by the former Under Treasurer John Langoulant to Richard Court. This letter is worth quoting over and over again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
I thank the member for the question. There is a short answer, but I prefer to give a somewhat longer answer on this occasion. I welcome the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition that the opposition will establish an expenditure review committee. Boy, does it not need one? The opposition’s record in government was five budgets out of eight in the red. If the opposition needs some reminding of its record in government, I will again quote from the letter by the former Under Treasurer John Langoulant to Richard Court. This letter is worth quoting over and over again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for Roe. Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Mr E.S. RIPPER : In his letter to Richard Court, he said about the member for Cottesloe that - I have expressed my concern to you on a number of occasions about the disturbing trend of Cabinet and individual Ministers to embark upon expenditure proposals out of context with the budget. The opposition, in government, had no budget discipline whatsoever, and it has none in opposition. I will be interested to see how the proposed expenditure review committee of the opposition will deal with the funding questions for the promises that it has already made; perhaps it will abandon those. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
The SPEAKER : I call to order the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I note that the proposed new committee has only one member; that is, the member for Vasse. I wonder who else will be on this committee. We know it cannot be the member for Cottesloe. We saw once again the excruciating file vision of the member for Cottesloe’s press conference held a couple of days before the last election. There is no way in which the member for Cottesloe can be on the proposed expenditure review committee. It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
It cannot be the member for Kalgoorlie because, as I understand it, the member for Kalgoorlie does not speak to the member for Vasse, and that would make the operations of the committee a bit difficult. Anyway, presently he is having the living daylights belted out of him by his colleagues because of his views on daylight saving. He is otherwise occupied. I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
I do not think it can be the member for Leschenault because an article in The West Australian quotes him saying - . . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
. . . that if Mr Buswell had voted for Mr Omodei “then it says a lot for the character of a person who aspires to high political office”. Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
Obviously, he thought it says a lot for the negative character of a person who aspires to high political office. I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
I doubt that the member for Hillarys, as fine a person as he is, is a candidate for membership of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. I think he would have trouble being a member of a committee chaired by the member for Vasse when his view of that member is expressed as follows - “His cowardly and gutless disloyalty will be the start of his demise and I think you will find the shining star of Troy Buswell will diminish over the coming months. “Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.” Members can see that the member for Vasse has a problem. He cannot find any member on his side who will be a suitable member of the opposition’s proposed expenditure review committee. That difficulty relates only to members of Parliament. There is someone outside this place to whom he could talk and to whom he has talked. He can hold expenditure review committee meetings in the Parliament House car park. He can talk to Noel Crichton-Browne there, as has been his habit. That is their regular meeting spot. Although the members for Leschenault, Hillarys and Cottesloe are not possible candidates for the expenditure review committee, Noel Crichton-Browne could be a candidate, and the venue for the meetings would be in a Commodore in the car park of Parliament House!
“Let me tell you, if he is the future of the Liberal Party then God help the Liberal Party.”
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