❓ The Minister for Education announces the reopening of Gascoyne Junction school with a $450,000 investment. He contrasts the government's investment in education with the opposition's approach, questioning their promises for new schools and upgrades in the Bunbury area.
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The people of Gascoyne Junction have been lobbying to have their school reopened for some time. Will the minister provide the House with an update on that situation? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Eyre for the question. The member for Ningaloo might also be interested in my response. I am following in the footsteps of the Minister for Police and Emergency Services who, I think, was the first police minister in Western Australia to reopen a closed police station when she reopened the one at Hilton, which, coincidentally, is in my electorate. I was very grateful for that. The Gascoyne Junction school has been closed for some time. It was closed because of a declining number of students. Those numbers have picked up, so the Government has decided to reopen the school. We will spend $450 000 to bring it up to scratch in time for the start of the next schooling year. It will get a principal, a teacher, two classrooms, an administration block, a library area and a toilet block. Currently the students in that area are being serviced by the Carnarvon School of the Air and the Schools of Isolated and Long Distance Education. Members can imagine what a shot in the arm this will be for Gascoyne Junction. I am sure the current member for Ningaloo would agree. This Government has a good record when it comes to opening new schools and its capital works and maintenance budgets. It is a matter of public record through the budget that we have increased spending on new schools by 21.4 per cent compared with spending in the last four years of the previous Government. We have got it up to $216 million, which is a $38 million increase. From 2002 to 2005, new and replacement schools in Western Australia will number 28, as compared with 21 in the previous Government’s four years. That is a 33 per cent increase. That is a very good record. What we do, of course, is build and open schools where and when they are needed. I am very concerned that the Opposition does not share the Government’s basic and simple straightforward approach to capital works and education. For example, at the moment it is promising people in the greater Bunbury area that it will build a new school at Dalyellup. Is that not right, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Eyre for the question. The member for Ningaloo might also be interested in my response. I am following in the footsteps of the Minister for Police and Emergency Services who, I think, was the first police minister in Western Australia to reopen a closed police station when she reopened the one at Hilton, which, coincidentally, is in my electorate. I was very grateful for that. The Gascoyne Junction school has been closed for some time. It was closed because of a declining number of students. Those numbers have picked up, so the Government has decided to reopen the school. We will spend $450 000 to bring it up to scratch in time for the start of the next schooling year. It will get a principal, a teacher, two classrooms, an administration block, a library area and a toilet block. Currently the students in that area are being serviced by the Carnarvon School of the Air and the Schools of Isolated and Long Distance Education. Members can imagine what a shot in the arm this will be for Gascoyne Junction. I am sure the current member for Ningaloo would agree. This Government has a good record when it comes to opening new schools and its capital works and maintenance budgets. It is a matter of public record through the budget that we have increased spending on new schools by 21.4 per cent compared with spending in the last four years of the previous Government. We have got it up to $216 million, which is a $38 million increase. From 2002 to 2005, new and replacement schools in Western Australia will number 28, as compared with 21 in the previous Government’s four years. That is a 33 per cent increase. That is a very good record. What we do, of course, is build and open schools where and when they are needed. I am very concerned that the Opposition does not share the Government’s basic and simple straightforward approach to capital works and education. For example, at the moment it is promising people in the greater Bunbury area that it will build a new school at Dalyellup. Is that not right, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
I thank the member for Eyre for the question. The member for Ningaloo might also be interested in my response. I am following in the footsteps of the Minister for Police and Emergency Services who, I think, was the first police minister in Western Australia to reopen a closed police station when she reopened the one at Hilton, which, coincidentally, is in my electorate. I was very grateful for that. The Gascoyne Junction school has been closed for some time. It was closed because of a declining number of students. Those numbers have picked up, so the Government has decided to reopen the school. We will spend $450 000 to bring it up to scratch in time for the start of the next schooling year. It will get a principal, a teacher, two classrooms, an administration block, a library area and a toilet block. Currently the students in that area are being serviced by the Carnarvon School of the Air and the Schools of Isolated and Long Distance Education. Members can imagine what a shot in the arm this will be for Gascoyne Junction. I am sure the current member for Ningaloo would agree. This Government has a good record when it comes to opening new schools and its capital works and maintenance budgets. It is a matter of public record through the budget that we have increased spending on new schools by 21.4 per cent compared with spending in the last four years of the previous Government. We have got it up to $216 million, which is a $38 million increase. From 2002 to 2005, new and replacement schools in Western Australia will number 28, as compared with 21 in the previous Government’s four years. That is a 33 per cent increase. That is a very good record. What we do, of course, is build and open schools where and when they are needed. I am very concerned that the Opposition does not share the Government’s basic and simple straightforward approach to capital works and education. For example, at the moment it is promising people in the greater Bunbury area that it will build a new school at Dalyellup. Is that not right, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
The Gascoyne Junction school has been closed for some time. It was closed because of a declining number of students. Those numbers have picked up, so the Government has decided to reopen the school. We will spend $450 000 to bring it up to scratch in time for the start of the next schooling year. It will get a principal, a teacher, two classrooms, an administration block, a library area and a toilet block. Currently the students in that area are being serviced by the Carnarvon School of the Air and the Schools of Isolated and Long Distance Education. Members can imagine what a shot in the arm this will be for Gascoyne Junction. I am sure the current member for Ningaloo would agree. This Government has a good record when it comes to opening new schools and its capital works and maintenance budgets. It is a matter of public record through the budget that we have increased spending on new schools by 21.4 per cent compared with spending in the last four years of the previous Government. We have got it up to $216 million, which is a $38 million increase. From 2002 to 2005, new and replacement schools in Western Australia will number 28, as compared with 21 in the previous Government’s four years. That is a 33 per cent increase. That is a very good record. What we do, of course, is build and open schools where and when they are needed. I am very concerned that the Opposition does not share the Government’s basic and simple straightforward approach to capital works and education. For example, at the moment it is promising people in the greater Bunbury area that it will build a new school at Dalyellup. Is that not right, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Eyre for the question. The member for Ningaloo might also be interested in my response. I am following in the footsteps of the Minister for Police and Emergency Services who, I think, was the first police minister in Western Australia to reopen a closed police station when she reopened the one at Hilton, which, coincidentally, is in my electorate. I was very grateful for that. The Gascoyne Junction school has been closed for some time. It was closed because of a declining number of students. Those numbers have picked up, so the Government has decided to reopen the school. We will spend $450 000 to bring it up to scratch in time for the start of the next schooling year. It will get a principal, a teacher, two classrooms, an administration block, a library area and a toilet block. Currently the students in that area are being serviced by the Carnarvon School of the Air and the Schools of Isolated and Long Distance Education. Members can imagine what a shot in the arm this will be for Gascoyne Junction. I am sure the current member for Ningaloo would agree. This Government has a good record when it comes to opening new schools and its capital works and maintenance budgets. It is a matter of public record through the budget that we have increased spending on new schools by 21.4 per cent compared with spending in the last four years of the previous Government. We have got it up to $216 million, which is a $38 million increase. From 2002 to 2005, new and replacement schools in Western Australia will number 28, as compared with 21 in the previous Government’s four years. That is a 33 per cent increase. That is a very good record. What we do, of course, is build and open schools where and when they are needed. I am very concerned that the Opposition does not share the Government’s basic and simple straightforward approach to capital works and education. For example, at the moment it is promising people in the greater Bunbury area that it will build a new school at Dalyellup. Is that not right, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
I thank the member for Eyre for the question. The member for Ningaloo might also be interested in my response. I am following in the footsteps of the Minister for Police and Emergency Services who, I think, was the first police minister in Western Australia to reopen a closed police station when she reopened the one at Hilton, which, coincidentally, is in my electorate. I was very grateful for that. The Gascoyne Junction school has been closed for some time. It was closed because of a declining number of students. Those numbers have picked up, so the Government has decided to reopen the school. We will spend $450 000 to bring it up to scratch in time for the start of the next schooling year. It will get a principal, a teacher, two classrooms, an administration block, a library area and a toilet block. Currently the students in that area are being serviced by the Carnarvon School of the Air and the Schools of Isolated and Long Distance Education. Members can imagine what a shot in the arm this will be for Gascoyne Junction. I am sure the current member for Ningaloo would agree. This Government has a good record when it comes to opening new schools and its capital works and maintenance budgets. It is a matter of public record through the budget that we have increased spending on new schools by 21.4 per cent compared with spending in the last four years of the previous Government. We have got it up to $216 million, which is a $38 million increase. From 2002 to 2005, new and replacement schools in Western Australia will number 28, as compared with 21 in the previous Government’s four years. That is a 33 per cent increase. That is a very good record. What we do, of course, is build and open schools where and when they are needed. I am very concerned that the Opposition does not share the Government’s basic and simple straightforward approach to capital works and education. For example, at the moment it is promising people in the greater Bunbury area that it will build a new school at Dalyellup. Is that not right, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
The Gascoyne Junction school has been closed for some time. It was closed because of a declining number of students. Those numbers have picked up, so the Government has decided to reopen the school. We will spend $450 000 to bring it up to scratch in time for the start of the next schooling year. It will get a principal, a teacher, two classrooms, an administration block, a library area and a toilet block. Currently the students in that area are being serviced by the Carnarvon School of the Air and the Schools of Isolated and Long Distance Education. Members can imagine what a shot in the arm this will be for Gascoyne Junction. I am sure the current member for Ningaloo would agree. This Government has a good record when it comes to opening new schools and its capital works and maintenance budgets. It is a matter of public record through the budget that we have increased spending on new schools by 21.4 per cent compared with spending in the last four years of the previous Government. We have got it up to $216 million, which is a $38 million increase. From 2002 to 2005, new and replacement schools in Western Australia will number 28, as compared with 21 in the previous Government’s four years. That is a 33 per cent increase. That is a very good record. What we do, of course, is build and open schools where and when they are needed. I am very concerned that the Opposition does not share the Government’s basic and simple straightforward approach to capital works and education. For example, at the moment it is promising people in the greater Bunbury area that it will build a new school at Dalyellup. Is that not right, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr J.H.D. Day: As you know, there was a large population growth in that area, and it needs a new school. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: When does the Opposition intend to build it? I have the quite interesting figures that reveal the number of children who attend that school. I will provide those figures in a moment. The member for Mitchell has also said that we have to upgrade Eaton Community College so that it caters for year 11 and year 12 students. When was the last time the member for Mitchell spoke to the parents and citizens association or the school council? Was it this year? Was it last year? The member for Mitchell’s reputation in that area is very well established. It would be unparliamentary to repeat what they say about him in Eaton, which is in his electorate, so I will not use that terminology. Following his invitation, I went to the Eaton school and personally met, in a meeting, with the P&C, the school council, and the school’s staff and principal. All of them said that they do not - I repeat, not - want their school to cater for students in years 11 and 12. That is in the member for Mitchell’s electorate. What a sad indictment of the member that that is being said in his electorate. They said that they wanted a new year 11 and 12 senior campus built at the Bunbury technical and further education site, an idea floated by the very clever and hardworking member for Bunbury. Let us get this on the public record today: does the coalition intend to build a year 11 and 12 senior campus in Bunbury on the TAFE site? Is that the Opposition’s intention, member for Darling Range? Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The Opposition is going to find out what the community wants. We have just been through a local area education plan. What the Opposition is trying to do down there is promise something to the people of Eaton that they do not want. It is trying to promise something to the people of Dalyellup that they do not want. Indeed, I have the relevant numbers. That leaves, of course, the area of Bunbury itself, where the Opposition will not build what the people in the greater area want. The Opposition has boxed itself into a silly corner and it will pay for that come election time. It has made a big mistake, as it has done in the member for Mitchell’s electorate on numerous occasions. A middle school at Dalyellup would have, as a feeder school, a primary school with a high school population of about 60 students. At the moment, that is the student population. On what basis is the rabble on the other side of Parliament proposing to build a new school at Dalyellup? It will do so on the basis of some sort of political advantage. It is creating a huge mess for itself. The people of Bunbury have been involved in a local area education plan. The result of that was a recommendation - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I am very good to the member for Warren-Blackwood; I would not want to have to stop that. He knows that I am very good to him and his electorate. They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
They want a senior year 11 and 12 campus in Bunbury. The only side of the political spectrum that will deliver to Bunbury what it wants is this side, because we are receiving the best advice possible from the people of Bunbury, ably led by the member for Bunbury. This little issue is a window into the pathetically useless world of decision making that beset the Opposition when it was in government. The way it is approaching this issue tells us a lot about why it left the State in such a mess. The former Minister for Education, the member for Cottesloe, could not run his office because he was not up to the job. He is still not up to the job. He is not up to the job he has now and he was not up to the job he had before. He left the State in a major crisis through the sale of the gas pipeline and he also left the education system in a mess. He has learnt nothing in his time in opposition.
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