❓ Opposition questions Treasurer about potential TAFE funding cuts amidst rising unemployment due to the economic crisis. Treasurer deflects, highlighting government job creation initiatives and criticising the opposition's plans.
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TRAINING PLACES — FUNDING
I refer to the midyear review, to the prospect of more than $317 million being cut from the Department of Education and Training and technical and further education colleges during the next four years and to the fact that the government made no promises during the election campaign to fund additional training places. (1) Does the Treasurer agree with the Director General of Education and Training, Sharyn O’Neill, that the current economic crisis will result in an increase in demand for TAFE courses? (2) Will the state’s training system be able to cope with this increase in demand at the same time as it meets the three per cent budget cuts? (3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
I refer to the midyear review, to the prospect of more than $317 million being cut from the Department of Education and Training and technical and further education colleges during the next four years and to the fact that the government made no promises during the election campaign to fund additional training places. (1) Does the Treasurer agree with the Director General of Education and Training, Sharyn O’Neill, that the current economic crisis will result in an increase in demand for TAFE courses? (2) Will the state’s training system be able to cope with this increase in demand at the same time as it meets the three per cent budget cuts? (3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
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I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(1) Does the Treasurer agree with the Director General of Education and Training, Sharyn O’Neill, that the current economic crisis will result in an increase in demand for TAFE courses? (2) Will the state’s training system be able to cope with this increase in demand at the same time as it meets the three per cent budget cuts? (3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(2) Will the state’s training system be able to cope with this increase in demand at the same time as it meets the three per cent budget cuts? (3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia.
What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia.
Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(1) Does the Treasurer agree with the Director General of Education and Training, Sharyn O’Neill, that the current economic crisis will result in an increase in demand for TAFE courses? (2) Will the state’s training system be able to cope with this increase in demand at the same time as it meets the three per cent budget cuts? (3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(2) Will the state’s training system be able to cope with this increase in demand at the same time as it meets the three per cent budget cuts? (3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(3) In the light of mounting job losses in Western Australia, will the Treasurer now reassess his spending priorities and invest in training? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
(1)-(3) It is the government’s view that there is ample scope in the training area of the education and training portfolio—as is the case across all areas of the general government sector and in areas outside the general government sector—to deliver more efficiencies in the way that government services are being delivered. Yes, in some areas there is more work to be done, but we are committed to that course and, in due course, we will deliver on those outcomes. Of course the probability is that there will be an increase in demand for training as employment opportunities dry up. Our advice is that there is ample capacity within the department as it currently sits to cope with that incremental growth in demand. The Leader of the Opposition touched on a very important point; that is, the issue of the protection of Western Australian jobs. It is an issue that fills a lot of the time and activity of this government. It is an opportune time to compare and contrast the approach to jobs of this government with that of the opposition. Let us look at what the government has done about jobs. It brought forward the construction of 1 000 new homes in Western Australia; it signed off on the construction of three new hospitals in Western Australia; it has overseen the commencement of work on the Derby prison; it started the saleyards at Muchea after years of neglect by the current opposition; it is proceeding with the Perth police complex—I understand from the Minister for Police that the ground for that complex is being cleared; it has made a $300 million investment in schools; FESA House, and the list goes on. What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
What else is this government doing to protect jobs in this state? It is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $640 million investment in housing and it is partnering with the commonwealth to deliver a $1.2 billion investment in schools. This involves a level of partnership that under the previous government would have been impossible because its work functions were almost devoid of any capacity to deliver. This government has a reform agenda colliding with opportunity to protect Western Australian jobs. What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia.
What else has this government done? Under this Premier we have embarked on state-building activities—for example, the Ord River and Oakajee, and work is underway to advance the Kimberley gas. Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia.
Before I sit down I will quickly compare the action and activity of this government to protect jobs in Western Australia with Labor’s plan to protect jobs in Western Australia.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Listen to Labor’s plan to protect jobs: it will appoint a task force, then it will conduct an audit, then it will conduct a strategic review and, finally, it will perform an analysis! Those are four of the points of the Leader of the Opposition’s five-point plan! The people of Western Australia who are looking for work have two choices — Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : — they can look to the government for actions, support and jobs, or they can look to Labor, which will form a task force, have an audit and a strategic review and perform an analysis. We have the runs on the board; Labor has empty, hollow rhetoric.
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