❓ Question regarding road safety funding allocation from traffic fines, specifically questioning the diversion of funds from the Road Trauma Trust Fund. The Minister's response defends the government's commitment and criticises the previous Labor government's record.
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ROAD SAFETY — FUNDING
The budget indicates that Western Australian motorists will be slugged $541 million in traffic fines over the next four years. (1) Why has the minister refused to continue Labor’s policy that guaranteed that one-third of these funds would flow to the road trauma trust fund, capped at $15 million? (2) Has the minister gone back on his word by breaking the Liberal Party’s promise to deliver all this revenue to the road trauma trust fund? (3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
The budget indicates that Western Australian motorists will be slugged $541 million in traffic fines over the next four years. (1) Why has the minister refused to continue Labor’s policy that guaranteed that one-third of these funds would flow to the road trauma trust fund, capped at $15 million? (2) Has the minister gone back on his word by breaking the Liberal Party’s promise to deliver all this revenue to the road trauma trust fund? (3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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(1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(1) Why has the minister refused to continue Labor’s policy that guaranteed that one-third of these funds would flow to the road trauma trust fund, capped at $15 million? (2) Has the minister gone back on his word by breaking the Liberal Party’s promise to deliver all this revenue to the road trauma trust fund? (3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(2) Has the minister gone back on his word by breaking the Liberal Party’s promise to deliver all this revenue to the road trauma trust fund? (3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(1) Why has the minister refused to continue Labor’s policy that guaranteed that one-third of these funds would flow to the road trauma trust fund, capped at $15 million? (2) Has the minister gone back on his word by breaking the Liberal Party’s promise to deliver all this revenue to the road trauma trust fund? (3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(2) Has the minister gone back on his word by breaking the Liberal Party’s promise to deliver all this revenue to the road trauma trust fund? (3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(3) Apart from spending $30 million to digitise the speed camera system, can the minister confirm that he has failed to deliver a single cent to fund the Towards Zero road safety program? (4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(4) How can the minister justify this blatant tax grab without funding Towards Zero and saving Western Australian lives? Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: (1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
(1)-(4) I would like to thank the member for the question, but I have to say that she has an absolute nerve. Her party’s commitment to road safety was very limited indeed. The member said that all the finances should go to the road trauma trust fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : No, that’s what your mob wanted. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, that is what the member has said as well. Is that correct? The Labor Party committed all the money — Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A previous Labor police and road safety minister made a promise that all the proceeds from camera infringements would go to the road trauma trust fund to reduce the road toll. That is what the then police minister said, and she is nodding in acquiescence. But that was not the case, because she went on to say that the Labor Party would allocate funds not just through the road trauma trust fund, but also through a range of initiatives aimed at making roads safer. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : The safer roads program. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, the safer roads program. I am glad the member mentioned that. Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : We’re asking you about what you’re doing. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Arriving Safely program was the strategy of those on the other side of the house when they were in government. That strategy ran from 2003 to 2007. Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.H. Cook : What are you doing now, minister? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I will tell members in a moment what I am doing; I am coming to that. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What happened when that strategy ran out in 2007? The former police and road safety minister would know what I am talking about; some other members would not have a clue. What did the Labor government do between when that strategy ran out and when the Towards Zero strategy was given to the previous Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the member for Balcatta, which was the same day that the election was called? It got buried. The previous government had not even implemented all the initiatives in the Arriving Safely program, even though that strategy had expired. Also, it did not put in place another strategy once that program expired. There was no direction on road safety by members opposite for nearly 18 months. That was the commitment they made to road safety. Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr M. McGowan : That is a ridiculous proposition. Answer the question. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Rockingham! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The member for Rockingham should not get me started on him, because I could have a field day with him. The member is suffering from leadership deprivation syndrome. The trouble is that to his left and right are other people who will get there a long time before he will. The member will never get there. He does not have the character for it for a start. As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
As a government, we are implementing the Towards Zero strategy. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Mr Speaker, members opposite obviously do not want the answer. If you want me to sit down, I will. But I will conclude. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We have an absolute commitment to road safety. The member has said that we have committed $30 million to road safety. Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : No, to digitising the speed camera system. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will have at least double — Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : There will be no massive income from speed cameras if people do not speed and do not put other peoples’ lives at risk. At the end of the day, if we get very little income from the additional speed cameras, I would be a very happy person and I would feel that I had done my job as the Minister for Road Safety. The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
The opposition is basing its argument on assumptions in the forward estimates. We have said time and time again that they are assumptions. If those assumptions become reality, a lot of that money will, just as it did under Labor, go into the road trauma trust fund. This government has in fact committed an additional $17.5 million a year to the road trauma trust fund, over and above the $15 million — Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Ms M.M. Quirk : It was underspent on advertising last year. Unbelievable! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I knew that I would get a question from the member for Girrawheen. I could see the member sitting there, and I said to my colleague the Minister for Education that the member for Girrawheen is like a coiled spring: she is just waiting to get into action! Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.H. Cook : Road safety is such a laughing matter, is it not? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The trouble is that the member really does not want to hear the answer; he does not like the answer. We are more committed to road safety than a Labor government ever would be. We are committing lots of funds to not only the road trauma trust fund, but also the different government departments that deal with road safety—including Main Roads—to make our roads and roadsides safer and to make driver skills, education and testing much better than was the case under Labor.
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