❓ Question regarding the Premier's decision to access the Yarragadee aquifer and whether it aligns with previous reports limiting groundwater draw. The Premier defends the decision based on new data and planning.
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I refer to the Premier’s knee-jerk response to the water crisis in his announcement today of a $37 million program to access the Yarragadee aquifer with three new bores, and ask - (1) In making this decision, did the Government refer to the Water and Rivers Commission’s report of December 2000? That report, in part, stated - A major proposition of the policy is to limit any additional groundwater draw from both the Leederville and Yarragadee aquifers which are considered to be almost fully allocated. (2) Will the Premier concede that his announcement today is policy on the run and that we need a water summit to allow the whole community to consider all options for the State’s future water supply? Dr GALLOP
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I take this opportunity to congratulate the ministers in my Government who have been involved in this area - the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Government Enterprises, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the Treasurer. Does the member for Merredin know when we sank the bore in Gwelup that I visited today and where I announced our $37 million program? Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
(1) In making this decision, did the Government refer to the Water and Rivers Commission’s report of December 2000? That report, in part, stated - A major proposition of the policy is to limit any additional groundwater draw from both the Leederville and Yarragadee aquifers which are considered to be almost fully allocated. (2) Will the Premier concede that his announcement today is policy on the run and that we need a water summit to allow the whole community to consider all options for the State’s future water supply? Dr GALLOP replied: I take this opportunity to congratulate the ministers in my Government who have been involved in this area - the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Government Enterprises, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the Treasurer. Does the member for Merredin know when we sank the bore in Gwelup that I visited today and where I announced our $37 million program? Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP replied: I take this opportunity to congratulate the ministers in my Government who have been involved in this area - the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Government Enterprises, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the Treasurer. Does the member for Merredin know when we sank the bore in Gwelup that I visited today and where I announced our $37 million program? Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
I take this opportunity to congratulate the ministers in my Government who have been involved in this area - the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Government Enterprises, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the Treasurer. Does the member for Merredin know when we sank the bore in Gwelup that I visited today and where I announced our $37 million program? Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
(1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
(1) In making this decision, did the Government refer to the Water and Rivers Commission’s report of December 2000? That report, in part, stated - A major proposition of the policy is to limit any additional groundwater draw from both the Leederville and Yarragadee aquifers which are considered to be almost fully allocated. (2) Will the Premier concede that his announcement today is policy on the run and that we need a water summit to allow the whole community to consider all options for the State’s future water supply? Dr GALLOP replied: I take this opportunity to congratulate the ministers in my Government who have been involved in this area - the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Government Enterprises, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the Treasurer. Does the member for Merredin know when we sank the bore in Gwelup that I visited today and where I announced our $37 million program? Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP replied: I take this opportunity to congratulate the ministers in my Government who have been involved in this area - the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Government Enterprises, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the Treasurer. Does the member for Merredin know when we sank the bore in Gwelup that I visited today and where I announced our $37 million program? Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
I take this opportunity to congratulate the ministers in my Government who have been involved in this area - the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Government Enterprises, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the Treasurer. Does the member for Merredin know when we sank the bore in Gwelup that I visited today and where I announced our $37 million program? Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Grylls: Tell me when? Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: It was sunk in September last year because this Government thinks ahead on these questions and plans for the future. Let us face it: the National Party is always a little slow in getting to a proposition. (1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
(1)-(2) The report referred to by the member was tabled in December 2000. The policy referred to in the report was an interim policy to restrict pumping because insufficient information was available to allow the commission to assess the impacts of further abstraction. In the past 18 months, the Water and Rivers Commission and the Water Corporation have developed a substantial model for the Perth aquifer system. New calibration efforts with the model have convinced the commission that short-term use can be made of the Yarragadee aquifer to increase supply for next summer. Various conditions have been applied in consideration of environmental impacts, such as balancing the impacts across the total system and the extract of various bore fields. We are therefore getting the water out. I remind members that this ground water draw represents 15 gigalitres out of 450 000 gigalitres. The research has been done and we have the information. Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Trenorden interjected. Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: The Leader of the National Party knows that this process will be monitored, as we do with all our bores. Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Barnett: What, your whole front bench? Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: Leader of the Opposition - Point of Order Mr MASTERS: Will the Premier table the official document from which I understand he is quoting? The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
The SPEAKER: That depends on whether the Premier is quoting from an official document. If not, he need not table it but if he is, he must table it. Questions without Notice Resumed Dr GALLOP: I am not quoting from an official document. I am answering a question. Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Mr Barnett: You read from it. Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: I read from it and have given the answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
Dr GALLOP: Do members opposite want me to answer the questions or not? We should consider the position of the National Party. This Government is doing things. What does the National Party want to do? It wants to hold a summit. The people of Western Australia want some action, not just words.
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