❓ Question regarding road upgrades between Darkan and Collie to accommodate increased grain transport from Bunbury Port. The Minister avoids a direct answer and attacks the questioner's past record.
AnsweredQoN 119Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
BUNBURY PORT —
GRAIN TRANSPORT
119. Mr M.P. MURRAY to the Minister for Transport:
I have a supplementary question.
Will the minister give an undertaking that the upgrades of the road between
Darkan and Collie will commence and be finished before the trucks start rolling
through in four-minute intervals?
GRAIN TRANSPORT
119. Mr M.P. MURRAY to the Minister for Transport:
I have a supplementary question.
Will the minister give an undertaking that the upgrades of the road between
Darkan and Collie will commence and be finished before the trucks start rolling
through in four-minute intervals?
AnswerView source ↗
I can give an undertaking that money
is being spent on those roads now that has never been spent on them before.
Mr
M.P. Murray : That's not the question.
Mr
T.R. BUSWELL : I can also give an undertaking, member for Collie–Preston,
that when I looked at the Hansard of
between 2001 and 2008, the member for Collie–Preston did not ask one
question about that piece of road. Why is it that the member for Collie–Preston
can sit over there on his backside for eight years and do nothing and suddenly
get in opposition and grizzle? You are a no-hoper; you did nothing!
Several members interjected.
Withdrawal of Remark
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The Minister
for Transport just used some incredibly unparliamentary language and I call on
him to apologise and withdraw.
Several members interjected.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : ''No-hoper''
is what you said.
Several members interjected.
Mrs M.H. Roberts :
Are you going to apologise or not?
The
SPEAKER : That concludes question time.
Point of Order
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS :
Can I seek some clarification from you, Mr Speaker?
The SPEAKER : I
never heard anything above the din.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS :
If the minister were to call a member of this house a no-hoper, as in the
quotation, ''You are a no-hoper'', is that not unparliamentary?
The SPEAKER : That concludes question time.
Mrs M.H. Roberts :
No ruling?
The SPEAKER : Are
there any petitions?
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS :
Mr Speaker, on a further point of order, I asked you for a ruling and I am
still waiting to hear your ruling.
The SPEAKER : I never heard what was said, but I think we
will let it go this time.
That concludes question time.
Several members interjected.
is being spent on those roads now that has never been spent on them before.
Mr
M.P. Murray : That's not the question.
Mr
T.R. BUSWELL : I can also give an undertaking, member for Collie–Preston,
that when I looked at the Hansard of
between 2001 and 2008, the member for Collie–Preston did not ask one
question about that piece of road. Why is it that the member for Collie–Preston
can sit over there on his backside for eight years and do nothing and suddenly
get in opposition and grizzle? You are a no-hoper; you did nothing!
Several members interjected.
Withdrawal of Remark
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The Minister
for Transport just used some incredibly unparliamentary language and I call on
him to apologise and withdraw.
Several members interjected.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : ''No-hoper''
is what you said.
Several members interjected.
Mrs M.H. Roberts :
Are you going to apologise or not?
The
SPEAKER : That concludes question time.
Point of Order
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS :
Can I seek some clarification from you, Mr Speaker?
The SPEAKER : I
never heard anything above the din.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS :
If the minister were to call a member of this house a no-hoper, as in the
quotation, ''You are a no-hoper'', is that not unparliamentary?
The SPEAKER : That concludes question time.
Mrs M.H. Roberts :
No ruling?
The SPEAKER : Are
there any petitions?
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS :
Mr Speaker, on a further point of order, I asked you for a ruling and I am
still waiting to hear your ruling.
The SPEAKER : I never heard what was said, but I think we
will let it go this time.
That concludes question time.
Several members interjected.
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