❓ Opposition questions the Premier regarding the potential for overturning driver's license suspensions following the reinstatement of a colleague's license, prompting a highly defensive and politically charged response from the Premier.
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DRIVERS’ LICENCES - OVERTURNING OF SUSPENSIONS
Before I ask my question, I acknowledge on behalf of the member for Murray and the member for Dawesville the year 11 students from Frederick Irwin Anglican School, which is located in the wonderful electorate of Murray. Given the State Solicitor’s advice that was used to have the member for Ballajura’s driver’s licence reinstated, I ask - (1) How many other Western Australians will now be in a position to have their licence suspensions overturned in the same way? (2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
Before I ask my question, I acknowledge on behalf of the member for Murray and the member for Dawesville the year 11 students from Frederick Irwin Anglican School, which is located in the wonderful electorate of Murray. Given the State Solicitor’s advice that was used to have the member for Ballajura’s driver’s licence reinstated, I ask - (1) How many other Western Australians will now be in a position to have their licence suspensions overturned in the same way? (2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Given the State Solicitor’s advice that was used to have the member for Ballajura’s driver’s licence reinstated, I ask - (1) How many other Western Australians will now be in a position to have their licence suspensions overturned in the same way? (2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(1) How many other Western Australians will now be in a position to have their licence suspensions overturned in the same way? (2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Given the State Solicitor’s advice that was used to have the member for Ballajura’s driver’s licence reinstated, I ask - (1) How many other Western Australians will now be in a position to have their licence suspensions overturned in the same way? (2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(1) How many other Western Australians will now be in a position to have their licence suspensions overturned in the same way? (2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(2) What is the Premier doing to audit the system to ensure that people who have lost their licences have not been treated unfairly? (3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(3) What avenues does the government have in place for people who have had their licences suspended in similar circumstances to that of the member for Ballajura to formally appeal against their penalties? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
I thank the member for Vasse for the question. (1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
(1)-(3) I am very tempted to go through a little history lesson about this case to see how it has been reported. That would be interesting. We should drag out some of the commentary that came from the other side when I made my decision on 8 May about the member for Ballajura about whether he should stay in the cabinet or be sacked; whether he should stay as the police minister or whether he should go. We should revisit the commentary that was swirling around about all that. It would be very interesting. I remember it starkly. Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr J.B. D’Orazio : So do I! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I remember the commentary. Of course, what we have had in the past six to eight hours is the most dramatic rewriting of history I have ever seen by some of those commentators. As I came in the door today, I was asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed? Doesn’t this show that you were wrong?” I could not believe that sort of position was being put to me by the very people who had covered the event in the first place! It was unbelievable! I guess that is the magic of the world that we live in. It is the surrealism of the world that we live in - that amazing capacity for reality to change under our feet! People race around demanding that we embark upon one course of action, and when we do embark upon that course of action, they attack us for not having stayed with the original course of action! It is amazing! Here we go! I feel as though I would like to pick off members opposite one by one! I am not sure whether I should pick them off one by one or do a job lot on them! Perhaps I should do a job lot and throw a grenade upstairs as well! Let us see who has the guts to stand and make an honest statement about the positions that they hold. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Is the Leader of the Opposition prepared to do that? Yesterday it was revealed in this Parliament, by one member after another, that not one member opposite has the guts, the credibility, the strength of personality or the willingness to make a hard decision. Members opposite are an absolutely spineless group of vacuous, principle-deprived nobodies! That is what the members opposite are, with the occasional exception. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Anyway, I have decided to refrain from doing any of that! The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
The circumstances under which the member for Ballajura lost his licence is in the minority of cases involving licence suspension. Drivers who have lost their licence in similar circumstances can write to the WA Police infringements section and ask to have their situation re-examined. To say that Mr D’Orazio’s case throws into doubt every case in which drivers have lost their licences for failing to pay their fines is incorrect. I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
I will finish on this note. What we have seen in the past 12 or 24 hours vindicates every decision I have made along this pathway, up until and including last Friday - every single decision. It is very interesting. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Listen to them! The little rabble barking away - grrrh, grrrh! They are barking away like angry little dogs that are running along searching for some core to their existence! However, there is nothing. There is no core to their existence. There is no reason for them to be in the Parliament. They do not know why they are here. They have no idea. They are off to Sydney soon, to sit around and suck their thumbs and be told by Peter Costello that they are a bunch of losers! Members opposite should lift their game! They are losers! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is where they are off to. Unfortunately, despite their protestations, I do not think it will have much impact.
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