❓ Mr. Redman questions the Premier's job creation targets in Albany, citing the failure of a previous plan. The Premier deflects by criticizing the previous government's unfulfilled gas pipeline promises and highlighting the current government's wave energy project commitment.
AnsweredQoN 78Legislative Assembly
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PLAN FOR JOBS
78. Mr D.T. REDMAN to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why should anyone in Albany
believe the Premier's job-creation targets when his two-year old Plan
for Jobs in Albany is a dud?
78. Mr D.T. REDMAN to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why should anyone in Albany
believe the Premier's job-creation targets when his two-year old Plan
for Jobs in Albany is a dud?
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The government has committed to, and is delivering, a range
of projects in Albany. As the Minister for Transport, with her extraordinary memory,
just reminded me, the last government had a plan for a gas pipeline! Remember
that one? It is a good one. It was announced in 2008. I remember the member for
Warren–Blackwood out there with his good friend, the former Premier.
Does he remember his good friend, the former Premier? He was doing media
announcements out in the bush. Before the 2008 election, the pipeline was going
to snake here and snake there, and go through all these regional communities on
its way to Albany. Then, before the 2013 election, there he was announcing the
Albany gas pipeline was going to happen again. What did we see? It did not
happen. Time and again the former government promised it and it did not happen.
We are working through the details
of the wave energy facility that we committed to before the state election.
Obviously, we cannot help what has happened to the tax incentives by the
commonwealth government. That is a fact. Once the National Party saw our plans
before the state election—I have not got it here with me—it
went out and committed to a wave park in Albany as well. It followed our lead.
I was in Albany recently and I looked at the National Party vote in Albany at
the last election. Admittedly, it beat the Liberal Party, but it got about 18 per
cent, which is about 18 per cent more than it deserves!
of projects in Albany. As the Minister for Transport, with her extraordinary memory,
just reminded me, the last government had a plan for a gas pipeline! Remember
that one? It is a good one. It was announced in 2008. I remember the member for
Warren–Blackwood out there with his good friend, the former Premier.
Does he remember his good friend, the former Premier? He was doing media
announcements out in the bush. Before the 2008 election, the pipeline was going
to snake here and snake there, and go through all these regional communities on
its way to Albany. Then, before the 2013 election, there he was announcing the
Albany gas pipeline was going to happen again. What did we see? It did not
happen. Time and again the former government promised it and it did not happen.
We are working through the details
of the wave energy facility that we committed to before the state election.
Obviously, we cannot help what has happened to the tax incentives by the
commonwealth government. That is a fact. Once the National Party saw our plans
before the state election—I have not got it here with me—it
went out and committed to a wave park in Albany as well. It followed our lead.
I was in Albany recently and I looked at the National Party vote in Albany at
the last election. Admittedly, it beat the Liberal Party, but it got about 18 per
cent, which is about 18 per cent more than it deserves!
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