❓ Hon Ken Travers questions the Treasurer's claims about grocery prices related to extended retail trading hours, specifically regarding the methodology and accuracy of a price comparison between Woolworths and IGA. The response defends the price comparison, highlighting the higher costs at IGA after 6 pm due to restricted trading hours.
AnsweredQoN 805Legislative Council
Asked
20 August 2009
Member
Portfolio
parliamentary secretary representing the Treasurer
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extended weeknight retail trading hours — grocery prices
I refer to the Treasurer’s claims yesterday about how he had compared the prices of goods at different stores. (1) Did the Treasurer personally purchase these items; and, if not, who purchased them for him? (2) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from Woolworths and the cost of each item? (3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON
I refer to the Treasurer’s claims yesterday about how he had compared the prices of goods at different stores. (1) Did the Treasurer personally purchase these items; and, if not, who purchased them for him? (2) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from Woolworths and the cost of each item? (3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON
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(1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(1) Did the Treasurer personally purchase these items; and, if not, who purchased them for him? (2) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from Woolworths and the cost of each item? (3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(2) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from Woolworths and the cost of each item? (3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(1) Did the Treasurer personally purchase these items; and, if not, who purchased them for him? (2) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from Woolworths and the cost of each item? (3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(2) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from Woolworths and the cost of each item? (3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(3) Will the Treasurer table a list of the 17 items that were purchased from IGA and the cost of each item? (4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(4) Does the Treasurer have a copy of the receipts for the purchases; and, if yes, will he table a copy of those receipts? Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon Simon O’Brien : Now we are getting on to the big issues of the day! Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Before the member is tempted to digress, would he please keep asking the question, without interruption. Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon KEN TRAVERS : Thank you, Mr President. I have lost track. I will continue — (5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(5) If no to (4), will he obtain a copy of the receipts and table them; and, if not, why not? (6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(6) Is the Treasurer aware of whether any of the items purchased were on special; and, if yes, how much were they discounted by? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON replied: (1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(1) No, a staff member purchased the items on the Treasurer’s behalf. (2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(2)-(3) Please find attached copies of the relevant receipts, which I seek leave to table, that clearly demonstrate that a working family shopping for essential goods in the Joondalup area after 6.00 pm last Wednesday would have been forced to pay 20 per cent extra as a result of Labor’s policy of restricting weeknight trading hours. Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Leave granted. [See paper 1059.] Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON : The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences — Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us have the answer, please, without the interjections. Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue: The Treasurer has asked me to highlight to the house the differences in the prices of some of the goods purchased today. I have with me the Huggies nappies, which were 13 per cent more. The toilet paper was 61 per cent more. Point of Order Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH : I am just a bit afraid that we might have this thrown at us, after what happened yesterday, and I will not have it. The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : That is not a point of order. Will the parliamentary secretary please continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : I can assure the member that I will not throw anything at her. The Weet-Bix was 55 per cent more at IGA. Point of Order Hon KEN TRAVERS : Before the parliamentary secretary embarrasses herself, I point out that she said they were purchased today. If they were purchased today, are they still on special at Woolworths in Joondalup, because they were when the staff member from the Treasurer’s office purchased them? In fact, I can tell members now that it is $2.35 extra for the Sorbent toilet rolls when they are not on special. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon NORMAN MOORE : There is no point of order. The member is asking another question, having already asked a question, and he is not giving the parliamentary secretary a chance to answer the question. He is grossly out of order, in my opinion. Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Several members interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! I will allow some very brief comments on this point of order. Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon SUE ELLERY : Mr President, I welcome your advice on the use of props in providing answers to questions without notice. The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Let us deal with those issues one by one. Firstly, there is no point of order. Secondly, in terms of props, it is not unheard of that members can use something to illustrate what they are talking about, but there is a line between an illustration of a point being made and a gimmick that brings this house into disrepute. I think the parliamentary secretary has used a couple of items to demonstrate whatever point she is making. I hope that is the end of the matter from the parliamentary secretary’s point of view, and I invite her to continue her answer. Questions without Notice Resumed Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. The other items, which I will not show, as the President has asked me not to, are instant coffee, at 64 per cent more, and the Whiskas cat food, at 25 per cent more at the IGA. Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon Ken Travers interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon Ken Travers has asked his question. He has had a fair go at asking the question. He should now have the courtesy to listen to the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
Hon HELEN MORTON : Thank you, Mr President. I will continue the answer — (4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(4) As per the answers to (2) and (3), copies of the receipts have been tabled. The member is most welcome to view the rest of the goods purchased by arranging a time with the Treasurer’s office to inspect them at his leisure. (5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(5) Not applicable. (6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
(6) The issue of whether the goods were discounted at the time is irrelevant. The fact is that the prices that applied at the checkout yesterday were the very prices that a working family in Joondalup would be forced to pay for essential goods after 6.00 pm. It is a shame that any person wishing to purchase essential goods at one minute past six yesterday evening would have effectively been paying a 20 per cent after-hours tax to shop at the only store open at that time in that area—IGA Joondalup. I urge the honourable member and the opposition to reconsider their position.
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