❓ Mr. Love questions the source of funding for the racehorse welfare plan, given recent changes to industry revenue. The Minister defends the government's commitment to the industry and highlights the importance of animal welfare for its sustainability.
AnsweredQoN 1056Legislative Assembly
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RACEHORSE WELFARE PLAN
1056. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Racing and Gaming:
I
have a supplementary question. Can the minister explain where the $8 million
that will be needed over the next two years to fund this scheme will come from?
Will it come out of the meagre amount of money the government has left the
industry after ripping two-thirds of it out of its grasp with the sale of the
TAB and the point-of-consumption tax?
1056. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Racing and Gaming:
I
have a supplementary question. Can the minister explain where the $8 million
that will be needed over the next two years to fund this scheme will come from?
Will it come out of the meagre amount of money the government has left the
industry after ripping two-thirds of it out of its grasp with the sale of the
TAB and the point-of-consumption tax?
AnswerView source ↗
I am looking at the member for South
Perth because we are both looking perplexed at the observation made by the
member for Moore. Roughly $179 million was disbursed to the industry. Whatever
it was, many tens of millions of dollars are disbursed to the industry and
racing clubs across the state by Racing and Wagering Western Australia after it
is collected by the agency through the various mechanisms for getting revenue.
Before that gets disbursed, $3 million a year will go towards animal welfare to
preserve the industry's licence to operate—the social licence
to operate that is gifted to the industry by the people of Western Australia.
Even with the ridiculous questions
that the Nationals have been asking, and despite the fact that those questions probably suggest that they do not agree, I do not
think that anyone else in this place or anywhere in Western Australia would say that what we saw on the 7.30 report was acceptable and was not
a threat to the racing industry right across the nation. It is an existential
threat to the racing industry. We are responding because we value the racing
industry. I want to commend and thank everyone in the Western Australian racing
industry for their willingness to engage in a rapid-fire response—not a
cobbled-together response. They are leading the nation. They are good people
within a valuable industry, and I will stand up for them every day of the week.
Perth because we are both looking perplexed at the observation made by the
member for Moore. Roughly $179 million was disbursed to the industry. Whatever
it was, many tens of millions of dollars are disbursed to the industry and
racing clubs across the state by Racing and Wagering Western Australia after it
is collected by the agency through the various mechanisms for getting revenue.
Before that gets disbursed, $3 million a year will go towards animal welfare to
preserve the industry's licence to operate—the social licence
to operate that is gifted to the industry by the people of Western Australia.
Even with the ridiculous questions
that the Nationals have been asking, and despite the fact that those questions probably suggest that they do not agree, I do not
think that anyone else in this place or anywhere in Western Australia would say that what we saw on the 7.30 report was acceptable and was not
a threat to the racing industry right across the nation. It is an existential
threat to the racing industry. We are responding because we value the racing
industry. I want to commend and thank everyone in the Western Australian racing
industry for their willingness to engage in a rapid-fire response—not a
cobbled-together response. They are leading the nation. They are good people
within a valuable industry, and I will stand up for them every day of the week.
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