❓ The Minister for Housing and Works criticises the Commonwealth government's funding cuts to the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement, highlighting the impact on public housing and the WA economy.
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Will the minister outline to the Parliament whether there have been any changes in funding under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement? Mr F.M. LOGAN
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I thank the member for her question and for her interest in social housing. I point out to the house that the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has been in place since 1946. It is a great institution for the joint funding of public housing that was developed by our great former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley. However, like so many of our great institutions such as Medicare, the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has come under constant attack by the Costello-Howard government in its mean-spirited approach to undermine the funding of the housing agreement. In 1996-97, Western Australia received $108 million in commonwealth funding under the agreement. In 2005-06, we will receive $98 million. In real terms, that represents a $156 million loss to Western Australia. An extra $156 million - Several opposition members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for her question and for her interest in social housing. I point out to the house that the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has been in place since 1946. It is a great institution for the joint funding of public housing that was developed by our great former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley. However, like so many of our great institutions such as Medicare, the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has come under constant attack by the Costello-Howard government in its mean-spirited approach to undermine the funding of the housing agreement. In 1996-97, Western Australia received $108 million in commonwealth funding under the agreement. In 2005-06, we will receive $98 million. In real terms, that represents a $156 million loss to Western Australia. An extra $156 million - Several opposition members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
I thank the member for her question and for her interest in social housing. I point out to the house that the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has been in place since 1946. It is a great institution for the joint funding of public housing that was developed by our great former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley. However, like so many of our great institutions such as Medicare, the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has come under constant attack by the Costello-Howard government in its mean-spirited approach to undermine the funding of the housing agreement. In 1996-97, Western Australia received $108 million in commonwealth funding under the agreement. In 2005-06, we will receive $98 million. In real terms, that represents a $156 million loss to Western Australia. An extra $156 million - Several opposition members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
Several opposition members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for her question and for her interest in social housing. I point out to the house that the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has been in place since 1946. It is a great institution for the joint funding of public housing that was developed by our great former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley. However, like so many of our great institutions such as Medicare, the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has come under constant attack by the Costello-Howard government in its mean-spirited approach to undermine the funding of the housing agreement. In 1996-97, Western Australia received $108 million in commonwealth funding under the agreement. In 2005-06, we will receive $98 million. In real terms, that represents a $156 million loss to Western Australia. An extra $156 million - Several opposition members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
I thank the member for her question and for her interest in social housing. I point out to the house that the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has been in place since 1946. It is a great institution for the joint funding of public housing that was developed by our great former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley. However, like so many of our great institutions such as Medicare, the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement has come under constant attack by the Costello-Howard government in its mean-spirited approach to undermine the funding of the housing agreement. In 1996-97, Western Australia received $108 million in commonwealth funding under the agreement. In 2005-06, we will receive $98 million. In real terms, that represents a $156 million loss to Western Australia. An extra $156 million - Several opposition members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
Several opposition members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
The SPEAKER : I call to order for the second time the member for Vasse. Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : An extra $156 million worth of funding through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement would have built in members’ electorates 1 000 homes for those on the public housing waiting list in Western Australia. I can also tell members that $156 million would certainly have been a massive injection for the building industry in Western Australia and a further expansion of our booming economy. However, that has not happened because Costello and Howard have continued to wind back all commonwealth-state agreements, whether they relate to health, the environment or education. In public housing the commonwealth government is also trying to wind back the amount of money that the states receive as part of the joint funding arrangements. Had the commonwealth done the fair thing and index-linked the state housing agreement, we would have had an extra $135 million to put into public housing. Had it done the sensible thing and index-linked it to the building price index, we would have received an extra $140 million. However, the commonwealth has ripped us off once again, just as it has with the goods and services tax, which we continue to refer to in this house. For every $10 000 worth of GST that goes to Canberra, we get $9 000 back. Howard and Costello continue to rip off this state by $1 000. Howard and Costello are further ripping off Western Australia in the area of GST laws that cover rental housing, which is input taxed. We cannot claim an input tax credit against money spent on rental housing. When the state government purchases houses for public use, GST applies to the purchase. It did not in the past, but it does now. A similar point was made yesterday by the minister representing the Minister for Education and Training, Hon Alan Carpenter, when he said that the building industry training fund is also subject to the goods and services tax. That is another example of Western Australia being ripped off. We are losing a minimum of $135 million as a result of the wind back of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. We are losing a further $8.5 million a year as a result of purchases of public housing. We call on members opposite to get behind the state government and to stop Howard and Costello ripping off the state. Members opposite should support us in our negotiations for a new Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in 2008.
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