❓ A parliamentary question regarding biofuels mandate in WA, referencing NSW's ethanol blending plan. The Premier avoids committing to a mandate, suggesting the questioner, a task force member, should raise it within the task force.
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I refer to the plan by the New South Wales’ government to introduce a legislated mandate that oil companies blend fuel with 10 per cent ethanol by 2011. (1) Following the Premier’s remarks in this house on 17 August that the government does not intend to mandate anything, will the Premier call on the WA Biolfuels Taskforce to at least investigate the potential for a similar mandate for biofuels in Western Australia? (2) If not, does the Premier concede that Western Australia will be one of the last states in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? (3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I refer to the plan by the New South Wales’ government to introduce a legislated mandate that oil companies blend fuel with 10 per cent ethanol by 2011. (1) Following the Premier’s remarks in this house on 17 August that the government does not intend to mandate anything, will the Premier call on the WA Biolfuels Taskforce to at least investigate the potential for a similar mandate for biofuels in Western Australia? (2) If not, does the Premier concede that Western Australia will be one of the last states in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? (3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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(1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(1) Following the Premier’s remarks in this house on 17 August that the government does not intend to mandate anything, will the Premier call on the WA Biolfuels Taskforce to at least investigate the potential for a similar mandate for biofuels in Western Australia? (2) If not, does the Premier concede that Western Australia will be one of the last states in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? (3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(2) If not, does the Premier concede that Western Australia will be one of the last states in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? (3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(1) Following the Premier’s remarks in this house on 17 August that the government does not intend to mandate anything, will the Premier call on the WA Biolfuels Taskforce to at least investigate the potential for a similar mandate for biofuels in Western Australia? (2) If not, does the Premier concede that Western Australia will be one of the last states in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? (3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(2) If not, does the Premier concede that Western Australia will be one of the last states in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? (3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(3) Does the Premier concede also that this will lead to Western Australians paying the highest prices for fuel in the country? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for the question. I refer him to my earlier answer on the base question about mandating. Is the member for Stirling a member of the task force? Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : Yes, I am. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : He is a member of the task force. He should investigate whatever he wishes to investigate. What was the member’s second question? Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : If you do not support having a mandate, do you concede that this state will be one of the last in Australia to seize the opportunities offered by the biofuels industry? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I do not. We are involved in a range of initiatives to try to bring about the outcome the member is seeking without having to mandate anything. The member is a member of the task force. Does he attend its meetings? Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : The last two have coincided with meetings of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member has not attended the meetings. He is a member of the task force but has not been to the meetings, yet he comes in here and asks questions about the task force. I will forgive the member because I understand that he is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He is a member of the task force who does not turn up to its meetings and he has a proposition that he thinks the task force should look at. He should put his proposition on biofuels to the task force. In the meantime, we will cooperate with the task force and with the member. Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr D.T. Redman : Do you support the task force inquiring into it? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I said that I would not support the mandate of anything along those lines. That is a different issue. There is a great opportunity in Western Australia along these lines. There is also an enormous opportunity for us to make better use of and get better utility for our abundant natural gas reserves. This is a marvellous opportunity. Minister Macfarlane, the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, is visiting Perth this week. I hope that he explains himself to the Western Australian people. The federal government has taken a hostile position and is applying extreme pressure on Western Australian companies to oppose the state government’s position on domestic gas reservation. It is absolutely disgraceful that the commonwealth government and the federal minister are taking this position on this abundant fuel reserve, which is already firing a significant part of the Western Australian economy and could be used to fire a lot more of it.
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