❓ Question regarding the Commonwealth Festival events for Western Australians. The Minister provides details of the festival's activities, location, and performers, while also addressing criticisms and interjections from other members regarding funding and relevance.
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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 — COMMONWEALTH FESTIVAL
With the launch of the Commonwealth Festival this Sunday, will the minister please inform the house of the class events that the people of Western Australia will be able to enjoy? Mr J.H.D. DAY
With the launch of the Commonwealth Festival this Sunday, will the minister please inform the house of the class events that the people of Western Australia will be able to enjoy? Mr J.H.D. DAY
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I am very happy to provide a bit of information about the extensive cultural festival organised in association with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held here next week. Certainly, a diverse range of performances and visual arts experiences has been put together very competently and very effectively by all those involved, and it is a great credit to them. The focus of activity will be in the “People’s Space”, as it is being known, in the Perth Cultural Centre, which is an area that members might recall, or would be well aware had they visited in recent times, has been substantially upgraded over the past two years—most recently with the addition of a LED screen and children’s play area in front of the Museum, and improvements in safety, lighting and many other aspects. A whole range of activities will be held from Sunday of this weekend through to the following Sunday—that is, 30 October—including exhibitions, music, art, films and fireworks displays. The festival has been organised in part for visitors to Western Australia, but more particularly for people from Perth and Western Australia, so that they can experience — Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I am very happy to provide a bit of information about the extensive cultural festival organised in association with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held here next week. Certainly, a diverse range of performances and visual arts experiences has been put together very competently and very effectively by all those involved, and it is a great credit to them. The focus of activity will be in the “People’s Space”, as it is being known, in the Perth Cultural Centre, which is an area that members might recall, or would be well aware had they visited in recent times, has been substantially upgraded over the past two years—most recently with the addition of a LED screen and children’s play area in front of the Museum, and improvements in safety, lighting and many other aspects. A whole range of activities will be held from Sunday of this weekend through to the following Sunday—that is, 30 October—including exhibitions, music, art, films and fireworks displays. The festival has been organised in part for visitors to Western Australia, but more particularly for people from Perth and Western Australia, so that they can experience — Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
I am very happy to provide a bit of information about the extensive cultural festival organised in association with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held here next week. Certainly, a diverse range of performances and visual arts experiences has been put together very competently and very effectively by all those involved, and it is a great credit to them. The focus of activity will be in the “People’s Space”, as it is being known, in the Perth Cultural Centre, which is an area that members might recall, or would be well aware had they visited in recent times, has been substantially upgraded over the past two years—most recently with the addition of a LED screen and children’s play area in front of the Museum, and improvements in safety, lighting and many other aspects. A whole range of activities will be held from Sunday of this weekend through to the following Sunday—that is, 30 October—including exhibitions, music, art, films and fireworks displays. The festival has been organised in part for visitors to Western Australia, but more particularly for people from Perth and Western Australia, so that they can experience — Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
A whole range of activities will be held from Sunday of this weekend through to the following Sunday—that is, 30 October—including exhibitions, music, art, films and fireworks displays. The festival has been organised in part for visitors to Western Australia, but more particularly for people from Perth and Western Australia, so that they can experience — Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I am very happy to provide a bit of information about the extensive cultural festival organised in association with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held here next week. Certainly, a diverse range of performances and visual arts experiences has been put together very competently and very effectively by all those involved, and it is a great credit to them. The focus of activity will be in the “People’s Space”, as it is being known, in the Perth Cultural Centre, which is an area that members might recall, or would be well aware had they visited in recent times, has been substantially upgraded over the past two years—most recently with the addition of a LED screen and children’s play area in front of the Museum, and improvements in safety, lighting and many other aspects. A whole range of activities will be held from Sunday of this weekend through to the following Sunday—that is, 30 October—including exhibitions, music, art, films and fireworks displays. The festival has been organised in part for visitors to Western Australia, but more particularly for people from Perth and Western Australia, so that they can experience — Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
I am very happy to provide a bit of information about the extensive cultural festival organised in association with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held here next week. Certainly, a diverse range of performances and visual arts experiences has been put together very competently and very effectively by all those involved, and it is a great credit to them. The focus of activity will be in the “People’s Space”, as it is being known, in the Perth Cultural Centre, which is an area that members might recall, or would be well aware had they visited in recent times, has been substantially upgraded over the past two years—most recently with the addition of a LED screen and children’s play area in front of the Museum, and improvements in safety, lighting and many other aspects. A whole range of activities will be held from Sunday of this weekend through to the following Sunday—that is, 30 October—including exhibitions, music, art, films and fireworks displays. The festival has been organised in part for visitors to Western Australia, but more particularly for people from Perth and Western Australia, so that they can experience — Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
A whole range of activities will be held from Sunday of this weekend through to the following Sunday—that is, 30 October—including exhibitions, music, art, films and fireworks displays. The festival has been organised in part for visitors to Western Australia, but more particularly for people from Perth and Western Australia, so that they can experience — Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.N. Hyde : Why don’t you keep the free wi-fi going after the one week? Why not give the people of Perth a CHOGM benefit? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members. Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : I will come back to the member’s comment. As usual, the member for Perth has made a contribution of great substance in relation to arts activities in this state. I will come back to that in a moment. But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
But the point I was making was that this festival has been organised primarily for people from Perth and WA so that they can experience a range of international standard events performed in part by local performers from Western Australia and Australia, and also by range of international performers such as Zakir Hussein, who will bring his international drumming performance to the Supreme Court Gardens next Sunday evening; the group Capercaillie from Scotland; Ringo Madlingozi from South Africa; together with Dan Sultan and Bombay Royale, both from Australia, who will perform at the finale concert on the South Perth foreshore on 30 October. Other significant events will include — Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr F.M. Logan : Who is cooking the barbecue? Will it be you or the Premier? Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : I am focusing on arts activity. There will be a broad range of experiences. I am sure that other ministers will inform the member about that. The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The member for Perth has, as usual, engaged in his predictable knocking activity in relation to anything positive that the government is arranging within his electorate. Never before in the history of this state has so much concentrated activity being focused in the electorate of Perth, and the member for Perth seems to have a major problem with that! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : Worse than that, the member for Perth on radio this morning managed to, in my view, grossly insult all those who have been involved in organising this cultural festival—people such as its artistic director, Shelagh Magadza, and David Malakari and all the other people who have been working behind the scenes. Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.N. Hyde : You’re not funding any artistic comment. Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr C.C. Porter : You’re not going! You’re not even turning up! You are a one-man protest! Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr T.R. Buswell : You’re not going and everyone is happy you’re not going. Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.N. Hyde : You go out and talk to the arts community. You talk to the people who have had their funding cut for your ribbon dancing and your fireworks for one week. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth! Do you want to repeat the exercise of yesterday? Is that what you are trying to do? I am happy to oblige you. I am happy to close question time right now. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : Thank you, Mr Speaker. Most people in the political arena experience relevance deprivation syndrome after they leave Parliament; unfortunately, some seem to experience it while they are still elected! With comments like “CHOGM events of ribbon dancing, fireworks and mindless entertainment” and also complaining about, I quote, “the lack of intellectual rigour”, I would like to know whether the member extends those comments to exhibitions such as Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route . Does the member include that in the category of mindless entertainment and lacking in intellectual rigour? That is effectively what he is doing. Is that so with the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : A wide range of events and activities that very much involve intellectual rigour are being organised. They are of a high standard and I am sure that many thousands of Western Australians, and residents of Perth in particular, will enjoy participating in these events. I very much encourage members and members of the public to attend as many of this diverse range of events as they can.
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