❓ The Minister responds to criticism of local government funding under the Royalties for Regions program, defending the allocation and attacking the opposition's stance and research on the issue. The response devolves into personal attacks and political point-scoring.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENTS — FUNDING
In response to the recent criticism by the non-believers in royalties for regions for local governments under the country local government fund, can the minister outline the growing responsibility of local government to provide essential medical facilities for its communities and the need for additional infrastructure funding for local authorities? Mr B.J. GRYLLS
In response to the recent criticism by the non-believers in royalties for regions for local governments under the country local government fund, can the minister outline the growing responsibility of local government to provide essential medical facilities for its communities and the need for additional infrastructure funding for local authorities? Mr B.J. GRYLLS
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I thank the member for North West for the question and for his great support for local governments in his electorate. One issue that was not raised in the debate yesterday, strangely, was the allocation under the Pilbara revitalisation plan of $20 million to each of the four Pilbara local governments on top of their allocations under the local government fund. That did not get a mention yesterday. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: I thank the member for North West for the question and for his great support for local governments in his electorate. One issue that was not raised in the debate yesterday, strangely, was the allocation under the Pilbara revitalisation plan of $20 million to each of the four Pilbara local governments on top of their allocations under the local government fund. That did not get a mention yesterday. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
I thank the member for North West for the question and for his great support for local governments in his electorate. One issue that was not raised in the debate yesterday, strangely, was the allocation under the Pilbara revitalisation plan of $20 million to each of the four Pilbara local governments on top of their allocations under the local government fund. That did not get a mention yesterday. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
One issue that was not raised in the debate yesterday, strangely, was the allocation under the Pilbara revitalisation plan of $20 million to each of the four Pilbara local governments on top of their allocations under the local government fund. That did not get a mention yesterday. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
[See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: I thank the member for North West for the question and for his great support for local governments in his electorate. One issue that was not raised in the debate yesterday, strangely, was the allocation under the Pilbara revitalisation plan of $20 million to each of the four Pilbara local governments on top of their allocations under the local government fund. That did not get a mention yesterday. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
I thank the member for North West for the question and for his great support for local governments in his electorate. One issue that was not raised in the debate yesterday, strangely, was the allocation under the Pilbara revitalisation plan of $20 million to each of the four Pilbara local governments on top of their allocations under the local government fund. That did not get a mention yesterday. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
One issue that was not raised in the debate yesterday, strangely, was the allocation under the Pilbara revitalisation plan of $20 million to each of the four Pilbara local governments on top of their allocations under the local government fund. That did not get a mention yesterday. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : There was another thing that was not mentioned yesterday in that thoroughly unresearched and gratuitous attack on local government by the member for Rockingham. Let me remind members of what the member for Rockingham said. He said that any fund that supports a National Party electorate close to the metropolitan area over a remote electorate in the north of the state is a disgrace; it should be scrapped; it should be stopped; it needs to be condemned; and it should not be supported into the future. That is exactly what the member for Rockingham said yesterday, which is why I think it is really surprising that the member for Rockingham, who clearly never does any work on this matter, cannot pronounce the names of the towns he comes into this Parliament to talk about. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The member for Rockingham thinks he is the shadow spokesperson. Given his great concern for the way funding allocations work in funding local government, I would have thought that the member for Rockingham would have mentioned the way in which the federal government allocates funding directly to local governments. If he had researched the federal regional and local community infrastructure program—the RLCIP—which has been run by the federal Labor Party over a similar time frame as has the local government fund, he would have seen that the Shire of Northam was allocated $134 000 in direct funding under that formula by the federal Labor government. But if we go north to Halls Creek, one of the most in-need communities in the state, the federal government allocated only $30 000. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : If the member for Rockingham, therefore, seeks to have any credibility at all in this argument, I look forward to him attacking his federal colleagues who also have a fund that, interestingly enough, supports communities in the Wheatbelt as it supports the community in the Kimberley. The member for Rockingham has no credibility because he does not do any work on this issue. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I also now turn to what — Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Have a look at what the country Liberals are doing. Just look at them. Are country Liberals supporting you? I don’t hear anything about them. You are very quiet. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Absolutely! In terms of talking about support, I do not think today is a good day for the Leader of the Opposition to raise that! Today was not a good day for him to get up early and open his copy of The Australian . Today was not a good day to look at Newspoll! Newspoll has a figure of something like 17 per cent; 17 per cent would not win the opposition leader too many elections! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr E.S. Ripper : What’s the vote for the National Party; about five per cent, isn’t it? Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Six. Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr M. McGowan : Six! There’s been a swing! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Members opposite should look at what we do with that six per cent! It is a very valuable six. Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Dare I say that the great benefit to the Leader of the Opposition is that the challenger sitting next to him does not do any hard work and does not understand his portfolio? Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr E.S. Ripper : He’s doing a great job and I support him. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Leader of the Opposition does not need to be too concerned by the challenge from the “member for sneakers” sitting next to him. I think the challenge might come from over here on this side of the chamber. Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Also yesterday the member for Rockingham attacked the funding priorities of local governments in regional Western Australia. He said that they did not have a role in providing health services and that they had no understanding of what was needed. The member for Rockingham said that he knows more from Rockingham than local governments know about their local communities. Let me tell the member for Rockingham what local governments are doing. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I turn to the Shire of Gnowangerup. The Shire of Gnowangerup, under the country local government fund that the member for Rockingham seeks to scrap, has supported its community by allocating $100 000 towards its new medical centre; it built a house for the doctor worth $330 000; and it has refined the business — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
The SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, you know the rules in this place. I formally call you to order for the first time. I am not going to suggest to everybody in this place that they keep quiet, because there is some sort of rap chorus, by the sounds of it all. I hope the Minister for Regional Development is near the conclusion of his answer. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The Shire of Gnowangerup also provides a business subsidy of $120 000 a year, and spent $30 000 on advertising to attract a doctor to the community. The Shire of Wyalkatchem—this is an amazing figure—spent 30 per cent of its rate revenue to provide medical services in the town. I would have thought that maybe the federal government could have helped it out, but, no, it is up to the ratepayers of Wyalkatchem to provide primary health care to their community. In Morawa, 10 per cent of the shire’s rate base went to medical services in the town. In Merredin, $500 000 was spent on building the new medical practice, and the shire spends $55 000 each year providing a house, vehicle and maintenance services for the doctor. Dalwallinu allocated $190 000 for a doctor and staff at the shire-operated medical centre. Corrigin’s long-term, well loved and respected doctor finishes his time there today and the town is now out looking for another doctor. In Corrigin, $150 000 a year is spent providing the surgery, car and house for the doctor. While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
While members opposite attack local governments for their contribution to health, I congratulate local governments for taking up the slack that has been left by governments of all persuasions over many, many years. Without the efforts of local governments in regional Western Australia, there would be no doctors in those small communities. Local governments should be supported. I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
I will finish by offering to provide the member for Rockingham with the information that he failed to research. That information is contained in the “Royalties for Regions Snapshot 2010–11”, which I will table at the end of my answer. The snapshot of royalties for regions shows that this year in the Kimberley region $146 million will be spent; in the Pilbara region $334 million will be spent; in the Gascoyne region, $42 million; in the Mid West, $27 million; in the Goldfields–Esperance region, $44 million; in the Wheatbelt, $56 million; in the Peel region, $8 million; and in the South West, $28 million. It is absolutely clear that no matter which way members opposite try to turn the figures, the focus of the Liberal–National government under royalties for regions is in the north west of the state—the Pilbara and the Kimberley. We make no apology for that. We know that after years of neglect, at last regional Western Australia gets the benefit of this program. I table the document. [See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
[See paper 2580.] Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I call you formally to order. It is your first time today, which probably surprises you. Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today and the member for Warnbro for the second time. I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
I will give the member for Victoria Park the call.
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