❓ A heated exchange in WA Parliament where Mr. Day questions the Premier's support for the Minister for Education and Training regarding a Corruption and Crime Commission report, leading to interjections and a point of order.
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MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING - CORRUPTION AND CRIME COMMISSION REPORT
I have a supplementary question. Why does the Premier continue to back an incompetent minister who consciously did nothing when these issues were raised by the opposition and, through her inaction, endorse the cover-up of this scandal? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I have a supplementary question. Why does the Premier continue to back an incompetent minister who consciously did nothing when these issues were raised by the opposition and, through her inaction, endorse the cover-up of this scandal? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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If the member does not mind me saying so, the question is loaded with subjectivity. Any assertion from the member and feigned shock that someone he ascribes incompetence to is still in the ministry is a bit rich given his ministerial record. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: If the member does not mind me saying so, the question is loaded with subjectivity. Any assertion from the member and feigned shock that someone he ascribes incompetence to is still in the ministry is a bit rich given his ministerial record. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
If the member does not mind me saying so, the question is loaded with subjectivity. Any assertion from the member and feigned shock that someone he ascribes incompetence to is still in the ministry is a bit rich given his ministerial record. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: If the member does not mind me saying so, the question is loaded with subjectivity. Any assertion from the member and feigned shock that someone he ascribes incompetence to is still in the ministry is a bit rich given his ministerial record. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
If the member does not mind me saying so, the question is loaded with subjectivity. Any assertion from the member and feigned shock that someone he ascribes incompetence to is still in the ministry is a bit rich given his ministerial record. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : We are getting nasty. Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr J.H.D. Day : I will stand by my record any day and I will debate it any day you like! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is good to see the member for Darling Range get a bit of energy and zap back! I must say that I did not think the member for Darling Range was a bad minister. I did not say anything to the contrary just then. I just said that it was a bit rich coming from him. As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
As anyone who has done the job would know, being the Minister for Education and Training is a difficult job. It is a challenging job. That is especially so if a person is not sitting on his hands and doing very little, which is what happened under the previous government. All it did was blow the budget. It wrote out the cheques when the requests came in. Trying to put in place a raft of reforms is a very challenging job. If I did not have confidence in the minister, she would not be doing the job.
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