❓ Opposition questions Treasurer about Under Treasurer's alleged concerns regarding the Southern Rail project's cost control. Treasurer denies the claim and accuses the opposition of being anti-rail.
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I have a supplementary question. Dr G.I. Gallop interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT: It will be again and again and again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Dr G.I. Gallop interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT: It will be again and again and again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Mr C.J. BARNETT: It will be again and again and again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Dr G.I. Gallop interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT: It will be again and again and again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Mr C.J. BARNETT: It will be again and again and again. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Mr C.J. BARNETT: Is it not the case that while the Treasurer sits opposite and giggles and smiles, his own Under Treasurer is clearly warning the Government and the community that the southern rail project is rapidly getting out of control? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
It is absolutely not the case that he is doing that. What he is doing, with my support, and what I am doing is saying to the community that we have a balance between the capital works program and the size of the Government’s surplus. The surplus is an important way of funding the capital works program. To the extent that we have a larger capital works program, we need a larger surplus for day-to-day expenses. That is the scenario and those are the choices that are before the community and the Government. Every time the Leader of the Opposition asks a question about the railway, he makes me think that members of the previous Government were never committed to this project. They are anti-rail and anti-Mandurah, and every time they do this they confirm that impression.
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