❓ Question regarding the government's commitment to a Rockingham rail loop, contrasting it with a bypass option and highlighting confusion over the opposition's stance. The Minister assures rail links will be built by 2005.
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ROCKINGHAM RAIL LOOP, GOVERNMENT’S COMMITMENT
I refer to the previous Government’s commitment to build a dual-track rail line to Mandurah and ask - Will this Government honour the previous Government’s commitment to bring a rail loop through the Rockingham city centre as opposed to a bypass option that is not favoured by the Rockingham community? Ms MacTIERNAN
I refer to the previous Government’s commitment to build a dual-track rail line to Mandurah and ask - Will this Government honour the previous Government’s commitment to bring a rail loop through the Rockingham city centre as opposed to a bypass option that is not favoured by the Rockingham community? Ms MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
Will this Government honour the previous Government’s commitment to bring a rail loop through the Rockingham city centre as opposed to a bypass option that is not favoured by the Rockingham community? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
Will this Government honour the previous Government’s commitment to bring a rail loop through the Rockingham city centre as opposed to a bypass option that is not favoured by the Rockingham community? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
Perhaps by interjection she will clarify the previous Government’s policy. Is it the policy with which it went to the election or the policy as enunciated by Hon Barbara Scott last week in the Legislative Council? The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
The Government is genuinely puzzled about the Opposition’s policy. We are being asked to honour the commitment it made to a rail loop and a bypass, yet last week we were being berated by the Opposition for adopting that policy. We were asked to abandon it and develop a new one. We are very puzzled by the Opposition’s position. However, we are talking to the City of Rockingham, which has put to us another proposal which we have had costed. Those costings were sent to the City of Rockingham last week. We will continue our dialogue with the City of Rockingham. I assure the member for Carine that the Government will build the rail links to Rockingham by 2004 and to Mandurah by 2005, unlike the mob opposite who, in eight years of government, built not one metre of rail line.
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