❓ Premier Carpenter answers a question about BHP Billiton's iron ore expansion, highlighting its economic benefits for WA. He then criticises Mr Barnett (member for Cottesloe) for a past statement on nuclear waste.
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RESOURCES SECTOR EXPANSION - BHP BILLITON LTD
Can the Premier please advise the house of the latest major expansion of Western Australia’s resources sector? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
Can the Premier please advise the house of the latest major expansion of Western Australia’s resources sector? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. Last Friday, BHP Billiton Ltd announced a major capacity expansion of its Western Australian iron ore operations. BHP Billiton has approved the rapid growth of project 4, which will increase its iron ore operation capacity to 155 million tonnes per annum. BHP Billiton will contribute approximately $2.3 billion for its share of the project. Initial production is expected to commence in the first half of 2010. Obviously, it is very good news for BHP Billiton and its shareholders. It is also astoundingly good news for Western Australia, and the Pilbara in particular, because of the business opportunities and additional infrastructure that will be provided. Given that the Western Australian economy is going so well, it was quite remarkable that an announcement of this magnitude barely created a ripple. There was coverage in the financial pages and I think there may have been some minor coverage in the electronic media. There was very little coverage of a $2.3 billion expansion program, whereas in earlier times in Western Australia the fact that an expansion of that magnitude was taking place in this state would have been a huge story. It speaks volumes for the state of Western Australia at the moment, in that there is so much activity going on, so much expansion and so much economic strength, that a project of that size created a relatively small reaction. Since we came to government, investment and confidence in the Western Australian economy has gone through the roof. It has gone from a $73 billion economy to an economy approaching $125 to $130 billion. Very few other places in the world could match that sort of growth. In the December quarter of 2000, capital expenditure across all industries in WA was $1.3 billion, 12 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. In the December quarter of 2006, capital expenditure across industries in Western Australia was $4.6 billion, 25 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. Mining investment in WA in 2000 was $2.6 billion, 43 per cent of total mining investment for Australia. At the end of 2006, mining investment in WA was $8.2 billion, 61 per cent of the total mining investment for Australia. Those figures speak for themselves. They are a great reminder of the wonderful economic times that we are enjoying in this state, thanks in part - not totally - to the efforts of this government in applying itself to resolving issues of infrastructure, procedural matters, approval processes and so on. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. Last Friday, BHP Billiton Ltd announced a major capacity expansion of its Western Australian iron ore operations. BHP Billiton has approved the rapid growth of project 4, which will increase its iron ore operation capacity to 155 million tonnes per annum. BHP Billiton will contribute approximately $2.3 billion for its share of the project. Initial production is expected to commence in the first half of 2010. Obviously, it is very good news for BHP Billiton and its shareholders. It is also astoundingly good news for Western Australia, and the Pilbara in particular, because of the business opportunities and additional infrastructure that will be provided. Given that the Western Australian economy is going so well, it was quite remarkable that an announcement of this magnitude barely created a ripple. There was coverage in the financial pages and I think there may have been some minor coverage in the electronic media. There was very little coverage of a $2.3 billion expansion program, whereas in earlier times in Western Australia the fact that an expansion of that magnitude was taking place in this state would have been a huge story. It speaks volumes for the state of Western Australia at the moment, in that there is so much activity going on, so much expansion and so much economic strength, that a project of that size created a relatively small reaction. Since we came to government, investment and confidence in the Western Australian economy has gone through the roof. It has gone from a $73 billion economy to an economy approaching $125 to $130 billion. Very few other places in the world could match that sort of growth. In the December quarter of 2000, capital expenditure across all industries in WA was $1.3 billion, 12 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. In the December quarter of 2006, capital expenditure across industries in Western Australia was $4.6 billion, 25 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. Mining investment in WA in 2000 was $2.6 billion, 43 per cent of total mining investment for Australia. At the end of 2006, mining investment in WA was $8.2 billion, 61 per cent of the total mining investment for Australia. Those figures speak for themselves. They are a great reminder of the wonderful economic times that we are enjoying in this state, thanks in part - not totally - to the efforts of this government in applying itself to resolving issues of infrastructure, procedural matters, approval processes and so on. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. Last Friday, BHP Billiton Ltd announced a major capacity expansion of its Western Australian iron ore operations. BHP Billiton has approved the rapid growth of project 4, which will increase its iron ore operation capacity to 155 million tonnes per annum. BHP Billiton will contribute approximately $2.3 billion for its share of the project. Initial production is expected to commence in the first half of 2010. Obviously, it is very good news for BHP Billiton and its shareholders. It is also astoundingly good news for Western Australia, and the Pilbara in particular, because of the business opportunities and additional infrastructure that will be provided. Given that the Western Australian economy is going so well, it was quite remarkable that an announcement of this magnitude barely created a ripple. There was coverage in the financial pages and I think there may have been some minor coverage in the electronic media. There was very little coverage of a $2.3 billion expansion program, whereas in earlier times in Western Australia the fact that an expansion of that magnitude was taking place in this state would have been a huge story. It speaks volumes for the state of Western Australia at the moment, in that there is so much activity going on, so much expansion and so much economic strength, that a project of that size created a relatively small reaction. Since we came to government, investment and confidence in the Western Australian economy has gone through the roof. It has gone from a $73 billion economy to an economy approaching $125 to $130 billion. Very few other places in the world could match that sort of growth. In the December quarter of 2000, capital expenditure across all industries in WA was $1.3 billion, 12 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. In the December quarter of 2006, capital expenditure across industries in Western Australia was $4.6 billion, 25 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. Mining investment in WA in 2000 was $2.6 billion, 43 per cent of total mining investment for Australia. At the end of 2006, mining investment in WA was $8.2 billion, 61 per cent of the total mining investment for Australia. Those figures speak for themselves. They are a great reminder of the wonderful economic times that we are enjoying in this state, thanks in part - not totally - to the efforts of this government in applying itself to resolving issues of infrastructure, procedural matters, approval processes and so on. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Since we came to government, investment and confidence in the Western Australian economy has gone through the roof. It has gone from a $73 billion economy to an economy approaching $125 to $130 billion. Very few other places in the world could match that sort of growth. In the December quarter of 2000, capital expenditure across all industries in WA was $1.3 billion, 12 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. In the December quarter of 2006, capital expenditure across industries in Western Australia was $4.6 billion, 25 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. Mining investment in WA in 2000 was $2.6 billion, 43 per cent of total mining investment for Australia. At the end of 2006, mining investment in WA was $8.2 billion, 61 per cent of the total mining investment for Australia. Those figures speak for themselves. They are a great reminder of the wonderful economic times that we are enjoying in this state, thanks in part - not totally - to the efforts of this government in applying itself to resolving issues of infrastructure, procedural matters, approval processes and so on. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. Last Friday, BHP Billiton Ltd announced a major capacity expansion of its Western Australian iron ore operations. BHP Billiton has approved the rapid growth of project 4, which will increase its iron ore operation capacity to 155 million tonnes per annum. BHP Billiton will contribute approximately $2.3 billion for its share of the project. Initial production is expected to commence in the first half of 2010. Obviously, it is very good news for BHP Billiton and its shareholders. It is also astoundingly good news for Western Australia, and the Pilbara in particular, because of the business opportunities and additional infrastructure that will be provided. Given that the Western Australian economy is going so well, it was quite remarkable that an announcement of this magnitude barely created a ripple. There was coverage in the financial pages and I think there may have been some minor coverage in the electronic media. There was very little coverage of a $2.3 billion expansion program, whereas in earlier times in Western Australia the fact that an expansion of that magnitude was taking place in this state would have been a huge story. It speaks volumes for the state of Western Australia at the moment, in that there is so much activity going on, so much expansion and so much economic strength, that a project of that size created a relatively small reaction. Since we came to government, investment and confidence in the Western Australian economy has gone through the roof. It has gone from a $73 billion economy to an economy approaching $125 to $130 billion. Very few other places in the world could match that sort of growth. In the December quarter of 2000, capital expenditure across all industries in WA was $1.3 billion, 12 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. In the December quarter of 2006, capital expenditure across industries in Western Australia was $4.6 billion, 25 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. Mining investment in WA in 2000 was $2.6 billion, 43 per cent of total mining investment for Australia. At the end of 2006, mining investment in WA was $8.2 billion, 61 per cent of the total mining investment for Australia. Those figures speak for themselves. They are a great reminder of the wonderful economic times that we are enjoying in this state, thanks in part - not totally - to the efforts of this government in applying itself to resolving issues of infrastructure, procedural matters, approval processes and so on. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. Last Friday, BHP Billiton Ltd announced a major capacity expansion of its Western Australian iron ore operations. BHP Billiton has approved the rapid growth of project 4, which will increase its iron ore operation capacity to 155 million tonnes per annum. BHP Billiton will contribute approximately $2.3 billion for its share of the project. Initial production is expected to commence in the first half of 2010. Obviously, it is very good news for BHP Billiton and its shareholders. It is also astoundingly good news for Western Australia, and the Pilbara in particular, because of the business opportunities and additional infrastructure that will be provided. Given that the Western Australian economy is going so well, it was quite remarkable that an announcement of this magnitude barely created a ripple. There was coverage in the financial pages and I think there may have been some minor coverage in the electronic media. There was very little coverage of a $2.3 billion expansion program, whereas in earlier times in Western Australia the fact that an expansion of that magnitude was taking place in this state would have been a huge story. It speaks volumes for the state of Western Australia at the moment, in that there is so much activity going on, so much expansion and so much economic strength, that a project of that size created a relatively small reaction. Since we came to government, investment and confidence in the Western Australian economy has gone through the roof. It has gone from a $73 billion economy to an economy approaching $125 to $130 billion. Very few other places in the world could match that sort of growth. In the December quarter of 2000, capital expenditure across all industries in WA was $1.3 billion, 12 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. In the December quarter of 2006, capital expenditure across industries in Western Australia was $4.6 billion, 25 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. Mining investment in WA in 2000 was $2.6 billion, 43 per cent of total mining investment for Australia. At the end of 2006, mining investment in WA was $8.2 billion, 61 per cent of the total mining investment for Australia. Those figures speak for themselves. They are a great reminder of the wonderful economic times that we are enjoying in this state, thanks in part - not totally - to the efforts of this government in applying itself to resolving issues of infrastructure, procedural matters, approval processes and so on. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Since we came to government, investment and confidence in the Western Australian economy has gone through the roof. It has gone from a $73 billion economy to an economy approaching $125 to $130 billion. Very few other places in the world could match that sort of growth. In the December quarter of 2000, capital expenditure across all industries in WA was $1.3 billion, 12 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. In the December quarter of 2006, capital expenditure across industries in Western Australia was $4.6 billion, 25 per cent of the total of such investment in Australia. Mining investment in WA in 2000 was $2.6 billion, 43 per cent of total mining investment for Australia. At the end of 2006, mining investment in WA was $8.2 billion, 61 per cent of the total mining investment for Australia. Those figures speak for themselves. They are a great reminder of the wonderful economic times that we are enjoying in this state, thanks in part - not totally - to the efforts of this government in applying itself to resolving issues of infrastructure, procedural matters, approval processes and so on. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is timely that in a discussion on the resources sector, we have an interjection from the member for Cottesloe. Yesterday in this chamber during a debate about uranium mining, I asked the member for Cottesloe whether he had indicated previously that Western Australia should be a nuclear waste dump site. He categorically said no, he had not done that. I said that I was pretty sure he had, so I would check the records to determine whether what he had just told the chamber was true or false. It did not take long to find out. According to my notes, on 23 January 2002, on ABC radio, the member for Cottesloe stated, in relation to this very subject, that Western Australia does not produce uranium at the moment but there are significant uranium reserves in Australia. He said, “I think it’s inevitable at some stage there’ll be uranium mining in Western Australia and I think as part of that, as part of Australia - indeed, as part of the world community - any country which either produces or uses uranium in significant amounts has a shared responsibility for the storage and ultimate disposal of the waste products.” That is a pretty unequivocal statement that if we mine and export uranium, we have to receive the waste. I wondered whether the statement made by the member for Cottesloe in Parliament yesterday was deliberately false or just a memory lapse. There are numerous other examples of where this member produces stunning memory lapses in exchanges across the floor and in general debate. It is worth noting that that is the case, because there are probably people on his own side of the chamber who understand perfectly well that it is a common characteristic for the member for Cottesloe to behave in that way. When he describes his own members of Parliament as petty crims and underachievers, it speaks volumes for the nature of the person indulging in the debate. Which category does the member for Vasse fit into - petty crims or underachievers? Is the member for Cottesloe denying he made that comment? I can spend a lot of time quoting examples where the member for Cottesloe makes statements and denies point blank that he has made them, and not just about people on this side. Yesterday he accused Dr Gallop of lying. Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Several members interjected. Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr T. Buswell : A bit shaky, are we? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Mr Speaker, I think there is a design fault in the new seating arrangements; I lost my balance. The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
The member for Cottesloe accused Dr Gallop of lying about the power provided for the desalination project. Does he stand by that project as well? Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Dr Gallop told the people of Western Australia that a desalination plant would be powered by wind. Is it? No. It is a general contract on baseload fossil fuel. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : A trail of contracts demonstrates that what Dr Gallop said was perfectly correct. I find it offensive that this member makes those sorts of remarks about the previous Premier. I am certain that the members of his own side who hear him describe them as petty crims and underachievers do not find that very amusing either. Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Who’s that? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has said that; he knows that. He has said it numerous times. Anyway, we are enjoying great times. The resource industry in Western Australia - Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you substantiate that, Premier, or will you apologise? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I have substantiated the comments I have made. I will leave it to the members in the chamber, knowing the track record of the member for Cottesloe, and after he demonstrably misled Parliament yesterday about whether he said that Western Australia should become the site for a nuclear waste facility - Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Never. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He did. I will leave it to members on his own side to make a judgement as to whether he is telling the truth now or whether I am telling the truth.
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