❓ The Minister accuses the Liberal Party of costing the City of Melville $1.5 million due to a reversal on a decision regarding the excision of four dwellings in the Wireless Hill precinct.
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Can the minister inform the House whether the Liberal Party backflip on the excision of four dwellings in the Wireless Hill precinct will have an impact on the residents and ratepayers in the City of Melville? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN
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I am sure Mr Kierath will not be very happy about this. The Liberal Party’s disallowance of the excision means that the residents and ratepayers in the City of Melville will be at least $1.5 million out of pocket and, over and above that, have to foot a bill of about $600 000 to restore the four heritage houses that are to be maintained as some sort of memorial to the member for Alfred Cove. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I am sure Mr Kierath will not be very happy about this. The Liberal Party’s disallowance of the excision means that the residents and ratepayers in the City of Melville will be at least $1.5 million out of pocket and, over and above that, have to foot a bill of about $600 000 to restore the four heritage houses that are to be maintained as some sort of memorial to the member for Alfred Cove. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
I am sure Mr Kierath will not be very happy about this. The Liberal Party’s disallowance of the excision means that the residents and ratepayers in the City of Melville will be at least $1.5 million out of pocket and, over and above that, have to foot a bill of about $600 000 to restore the four heritage houses that are to be maintained as some sort of memorial to the member for Alfred Cove. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I am sure Mr Kierath will not be very happy about this. The Liberal Party’s disallowance of the excision means that the residents and ratepayers in the City of Melville will be at least $1.5 million out of pocket and, over and above that, have to foot a bill of about $600 000 to restore the four heritage houses that are to be maintained as some sort of memorial to the member for Alfred Cove. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
I am sure Mr Kierath will not be very happy about this. The Liberal Party’s disallowance of the excision means that the residents and ratepayers in the City of Melville will be at least $1.5 million out of pocket and, over and above that, have to foot a bill of about $600 000 to restore the four heritage houses that are to be maintained as some sort of memorial to the member for Alfred Cove. Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these four heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of these heritage houses - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Alfred Cove! Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the first time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The proceeds of the sale of the properties were to go to the City of Melville, which had entered into an agreement with the previous Government when it closed Heathcote hospital. The arrangement was that the City of Melville would spend $6 million - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is heritage gone crazy. The City of Melville was inveigled into an agreement with the previous Government to spend $6 million on the restoration of the heritage buildings on the Heathcote site. The quid pro quo was to be that the Government would sell the lower lands of the Heathcote site and reimburse the City of Melville for that - Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr J.M. Woollard interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Alfred Cove to order for the second time. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The Government was to reimburse the City of Melville for that $6 million. Of course, the erstwhile member for Alfred Cove - Ms Woollard as she was then - and her friends, the orthopaedic surgeons etc, entered into the fray and campaigned against the sale. As we know, the then Minister for Lands was the member for Alfred Cove. He realised that this was a bit of a problem for him. In the dying days of the last Government, the Government and the City of Melville entered into an agreement. The Government said that the lower lands did not have to be sold; instead, the City of Melville could sell every other piece of public open space within the city that it could find. That is how it was to get its $6 million back. One of the pieces of property that the City of Melville quite properly identified in trying to recoup its money was that containing the four houses on the Wireless Hill reserve. Part of the agreement was that the houses would be excised from the reserve and sold, intact and with heritage agreements and listings, to the private sector to be restored and meet their manifest destiny as heritage houses. We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
We went along with the City of Melville’s plan and duly moved for the excision of those properties through the parliamentary process. We understood that the Liberal Party supported the move. We had been told that by various Liberal Party operatives. We moved the motion in the Parliament. We now find that there has been a complete backflip. Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Mr P.D. Omodei: What is your position? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: We moved the excision motion in the Parliament! We are saying that we support it. We do not want the City of Melville to be dudded to the tune of $1.6 million. We certainly do not want those four heritage buildings to continue to rot. We want them to be restored. However, we know that the City of Melville does not have the money to do that. The only thing that has changed, of course, is that Mr Shave and Mr Kierath are back on the campaign trail, and we know that their enemies within the Liberal Party are trying to thwart them. This is an example of how Liberal Party bickering - Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Dr G.I. Gallop: I am told that the Liberal Party has been nominated for the United Nations recycling award this year! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: It certainly would not be the reconciliation award! Unfortunately, the desire by members of the Liberal Party, particularly in the upper House, to get back at Mr Kierath and Mr Shave has cost the ratepayers of the City of Melville $1.6 million.
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