❓ Mr. Buswell questions the government's housing plan for increased skilled migrants, given limited new housing lots. Premier Carpenter dismisses concerns, attributing WA's economic success to his government and criticising the opposition's past performance.
AnsweredQoN 596Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
HOUSING - MIGRANT WORKERS
I refer to the government’s efforts to lobby the federal government to increase the skilled migrant intake to Western Australia. (1) Given industry estimates that over the next 12 months, 30 000 prospective new home buyers will enter the Western Australian market when only 4 000 new lots will be created, how does the government propose to house the additional migrant work force? (2) Does the Premier concede that his government’s housing crisis is exacerbating labour shortages in Western Australia? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I refer to the government’s efforts to lobby the federal government to increase the skilled migrant intake to Western Australia. (1) Given industry estimates that over the next 12 months, 30 000 prospective new home buyers will enter the Western Australian market when only 4 000 new lots will be created, how does the government propose to house the additional migrant work force? (2) Does the Premier concede that his government’s housing crisis is exacerbating labour shortages in Western Australia? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
AnswerView source ↗
(1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(1) Given industry estimates that over the next 12 months, 30 000 prospective new home buyers will enter the Western Australian market when only 4 000 new lots will be created, how does the government propose to house the additional migrant work force? (2) Does the Premier concede that his government’s housing crisis is exacerbating labour shortages in Western Australia? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(2) Does the Premier concede that his government’s housing crisis is exacerbating labour shortages in Western Australia? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(1) Given industry estimates that over the next 12 months, 30 000 prospective new home buyers will enter the Western Australian market when only 4 000 new lots will be created, how does the government propose to house the additional migrant work force? (2) Does the Premier concede that his government’s housing crisis is exacerbating labour shortages in Western Australia? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(2) Does the Premier concede that his government’s housing crisis is exacerbating labour shortages in Western Australia? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(1) No. (2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
(2) Absolutely not. Members opposite were just given a run-down on this subject by the minister who answered the previous question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
The SPEAKER : Order! The last person I heard among all that was the member for Murdoch, and I call him to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Western Australia’s economy is so far in advance of that of the rest of the nation that there is daylight between it and the rest. That is gnawing away at the guts of the people sitting opposite, because they had their chance when they were in government and they were useless. When we came to government we inherited an economy that was contracting - “Honey, I have shrunk the economy” might well have been their election catchcry. It could also have been, “Look how clever we have been in shrinking the economy.” There was plenty of growth in the world economy during the 1990s and they had the opportunity to set Western Australia up for the future, but they did nothing because their view was that governments do not have to do anything. They had the Calvin Coolidge approach to government; that is, governments should not have to do anything. He believed that ministers should sleep 12 hours a day, catch a nap in the afternoon and play golf all weekend. Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Dr K.D. Hames interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember distinctly the criticism of the member by his own side of his hopeless reaction to the issues that were on foot when he was indigenous affairs minister. How he has the hide to ask questions of this minister, I do not know! He thinks that everyone has a goldfish memory capacity. He thinks that everybody will swim around once and forget how useless he was, and he was utterly useless. What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
What really upsets members opposite is that now Western Australia has a government that has come to power and is putting in place policy settings and developing the physical and human infrastructure of the state. Because of that, guess what is happening? Bang! The economy is booming as it has never done before, and all the lazy, useless, no-good, hopeless fools on the opposition side resent it. They sit there and ask us why we do not do this or why we do not do that. They resent the success that the state is enjoying and they resent the fact that the state is being held up as a model for the rest of the nation. They cannot stand it; that is the trouble. They resent the fact that people are enjoying economic times that they could never have enjoyed under members opposite because they were so useless. They cannot figure it out! They cannot figure out how we are doing it because we should not be able to do it! We are not the right party! We are not the party that God made to rule! We are not the party the members of which sat down and did nothing for year after year. Members opposite are hopeless, pathetic jokes. WA is now a state to which everybody wants to come and buy, build or rent houses. They want to move here because we have unbelievably attractive conditions for them, and members opposite hate it. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has come to this place as a failed local government representative from Busselton with question marks hanging over his record, and he is now sitting opposite and saying, “What are you going to do?” He cannot stand the fact that we have the best health system in the nation or that we have the most successful Treasurer that the state has ever seen. Members opposite cannot stand it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had a very interesting conversation with a former extremely senior Liberal person who basically shared my view. He did not believe that members opposite had realised they had lost the election. They could not believe it. The public had got it wrong! At the last election, the opposition had the chance to get some good new people into the party, but what does it have? It has members in this place who are here as an alternative to retirement. It seems that it is better pay for them to sit on their backsides on the backbenches of the state Parliament in opposition than to go into retirement. A very senior former Liberal person said that to me - they missed a chance. He could not quite believe that things have gone past members opposite. It might take a while for the reality to dawn, but to this time it has not! Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Yes, we have a skills shortage. Why? Because the economy is booming and because, until five and a half years ago, no effort whatsoever was put into training young people in this state to position them to take advantage of the booming economy. None! Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr T. Buswell : It’s a labour shortage. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Labour shortage! All the builders in this state came to me when I was the Minister for Education and Training and said that we had to do more to train people for their industry because nothing had happened for a long time. The former government allowed kids to pour out of school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and no jobs. There was 27 per cent youth unemployment. What happened? Members opposite lost government and they have not learned a damn thing.
Explore WA Government Data
Search the full archive in the free dashboard, or query programmatically via API.
Explore more
Government Gazette
Appointments, regulatory notices, planning changes.
Hansard
Debates, questions, speeches and sentiment.
Tabled Papers
Reports and documents tabled in Parliament.
Committees
Committee profiles and recent reports.
Regulations
Subsidiary legislation with filters and summaries.
Bills
Proposed laws and parliamentary progress.
Acts
Current WA legislation and summaries.
Explanatory Memoranda
Bills with EMs (text/PDF) available.
Members
MP profiles, party breakdown and rankings.
Pollie Rankings
Data-driven rankings across 19 categories.
Amendment Chains
Track how schemes and regulations evolve over time.