❓ Opposition questions the Minister for Transport about advertising expenditure on METRONET and project delays/cost blowouts. The Minister deflects, criticises the previous government's inaction, and defends current project delivery.
AnsweredQoN 907Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
METRONET — ADVERTISING
907. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Transport:
I have a supplementary question.
Apparently the minister does not know how much money has been expended on
advertising. Does this explain why all her projects —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, members!
Mr R.S. LOVE : Does this
lack of detail explain why all the minister's projects continually blow
out in time and cost?
907. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Minister for Transport:
I have a supplementary question.
Apparently the minister does not know how much money has been expended on
advertising. Does this explain why all her projects —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, members!
Mr R.S. LOVE : Does this
lack of detail explain why all the minister's projects continually blow
out in time and cost?
AnswerView source ↗
Do members know why the previous
government's public transport projects did not blow out? It did not
build any! If you do not do anything, it is really easy to manage cost
pressures! I do not know what bubble the Leader of the Opposition is living in;
some sort of bubble of negativity. We have three leaders of the opposition: The
Lord Mayor of Perth, the Leader of the Liberal Party and the Leader of the
Opposition. There are three leaders of the opposition at the moment. I know the
opposition loves privatisation and contracting out, but I never thought it
would contract out the position of Leader of
the Opposition to another group down the road! It has taken privatisation and
contracting out to the next level by contracting out the role of
opposition leader to a council! Its obsession with privatisation and
contracting out has no end; as we have seen, it has actually contracted out the
role of Leader of the Opposition.
In case members opposite did not
realise, there have been some significant challenges with building things
across the nation. I am very proud of the
work that is happening out there; I am very proud of the workers who are out
there , in the heat and at night, delivering projects that will transform
this state, including the Bunbury Outer Ring Road, the Albany ring-road or the
Fitzroy River Bridge, which the opposition claimed we would not deliver on
time. Members opposite should go out and apologise for all the scaremongering
they did to all the freight operators and tourism operators in the entire
north. That project cost a bit, but do members know what? We delivered it. We
are delivering a massive program of building.
The member can go out there and
oppose Metronet; go ahead. He can go and tell the people of Byford that they do
not deserve a rail line. He can go and tell the people of Yanchep that they do
not deserve a rail line. He can tell the people of Ellenbrook—the
people he lied to, again and again—that they do not deserve a rail
line.
government's public transport projects did not blow out? It did not
build any! If you do not do anything, it is really easy to manage cost
pressures! I do not know what bubble the Leader of the Opposition is living in;
some sort of bubble of negativity. We have three leaders of the opposition: The
Lord Mayor of Perth, the Leader of the Liberal Party and the Leader of the
Opposition. There are three leaders of the opposition at the moment. I know the
opposition loves privatisation and contracting out, but I never thought it
would contract out the position of Leader of
the Opposition to another group down the road! It has taken privatisation and
contracting out to the next level by contracting out the role of
opposition leader to a council! Its obsession with privatisation and
contracting out has no end; as we have seen, it has actually contracted out the
role of Leader of the Opposition.
In case members opposite did not
realise, there have been some significant challenges with building things
across the nation. I am very proud of the
work that is happening out there; I am very proud of the workers who are out
there , in the heat and at night, delivering projects that will transform
this state, including the Bunbury Outer Ring Road, the Albany ring-road or the
Fitzroy River Bridge, which the opposition claimed we would not deliver on
time. Members opposite should go out and apologise for all the scaremongering
they did to all the freight operators and tourism operators in the entire
north. That project cost a bit, but do members know what? We delivered it. We
are delivering a massive program of building.
The member can go out there and
oppose Metronet; go ahead. He can go and tell the people of Byford that they do
not deserve a rail line. He can go and tell the people of Yanchep that they do
not deserve a rail line. He can tell the people of Ellenbrook—the
people he lied to, again and again—that they do not deserve a rail
line.
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