❓ Question regarding long Homeswest waiting lists. The Minister's response includes political point-scoring, statistics on waiting list reduction since 2001, and discussion of negotiations with the Commonwealth for housing in Fremantle.
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Many people in our community rely on Homeswest accommodation for their residential housing and, as many members of Parliament know, the waiting list is far too long. What will the minister do to reduce Homeswest waiting lists? Mr F.M. LOGAN
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Goodness me! I do not know whether I should thank the member for Swan Hills for that question, particularly the way it was phrased, but I certainly acknowledge her commitment to public housing. The Gallop government is making very solid inroads into addressing housing affordability and also the waiting list, unlike the opposition. As of 30 September 2005 - Mr M.J. Birney : Do you ever wonder why you are on the back bench? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: Goodness me! I do not know whether I should thank the member for Swan Hills for that question, particularly the way it was phrased, but I certainly acknowledge her commitment to public housing. The Gallop government is making very solid inroads into addressing housing affordability and also the waiting list, unlike the opposition. As of 30 September 2005 - Mr M.J. Birney : Do you ever wonder why you are on the back bench? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Goodness me! I do not know whether I should thank the member for Swan Hills for that question, particularly the way it was phrased, but I certainly acknowledge her commitment to public housing. The Gallop government is making very solid inroads into addressing housing affordability and also the waiting list, unlike the opposition. As of 30 September 2005 - Mr M.J. Birney : Do you ever wonder why you are on the back bench? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : Do you ever wonder why you are on the back bench? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: Goodness me! I do not know whether I should thank the member for Swan Hills for that question, particularly the way it was phrased, but I certainly acknowledge her commitment to public housing. The Gallop government is making very solid inroads into addressing housing affordability and also the waiting list, unlike the opposition. As of 30 September 2005 - Mr M.J. Birney : Do you ever wonder why you are on the back bench? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Goodness me! I do not know whether I should thank the member for Swan Hills for that question, particularly the way it was phrased, but I certainly acknowledge her commitment to public housing. The Gallop government is making very solid inroads into addressing housing affordability and also the waiting list, unlike the opposition. As of 30 September 2005 - Mr M.J. Birney : Do you ever wonder why you are on the back bench? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : Do you ever wonder why you are on the back bench? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is like the Fitzroy River: he is five miles wide and one inch deep; that is how shallow he is. Now that he has interjected, he should go and check my share portfolio. He should check my return and see what is in it. Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : I will get someone to check it. I have probably got it here. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I would like the Leader of the Opposition to read it out. Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : I don’t think you even own a house, do you? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Leader of the Opposition is a fake and he is shallow. Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr M.J. Birney : Do you own a house? Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : No, I do not. As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
As at 30 September 2005 the waiting list, which is what I will come back to, stood at 13 122. However, when the Gallop government took office in 2001 it inherited from the coalition a waiting list of 15 546. During the first term of this Labor government we reduced the waiting list by 4 424, or 15.6 per cent, and all the ministers involved should be congratulated. The best way we can reduce our waiting lists is by addressing the issue of affordable housing and investing in public housing. Members of the opposition have a born-to-rule mentality, and why that is so is beyond me. They are a rabble of anti-union zealots, failed businesspeople and no-hopers who have a born-to-rule mentality. They would like to scoop up all the people who they see as the poor, who have access to social housing, and put them on estates as far away from them as they possibly can - on the outskirts of country towns or the outskirts of the metropolitan area. That is what those opposite would like to do with public housing; that is what they did with public housing, unlike this government which is reversing that situation. One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
One option we have been working on since 2002 to reverse the issue of public housing waiting lists is to secure from the commonwealth some houses in the Fremantle area. Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr J.A. McGinty : I am very pleased. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am sure many people would know where these houses are. They are in Queen Victoria Street. As they go over the bridge into Fremantle, members will note some of the little cottages beside the army barracks and, as the member for Fremantle will know, it would be very handy to get hold of them to address the issue of housing affordability and social housing in Fremantle, which issue we need to address even better than we are doing at the moment. We have been negotiating with the commonwealth for those properties since 2002. Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr T.R. Buswell : Who lives in them now? Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : Nobody; that is the whole point. That is why I want to get hold of them. Unfortunately, the commonwealth’s response was that if it sells them to Western Australia, it wants us to renovate the entire barracks site. That was the commonwealth’s part in the negotiations. We said that instead of purchasing the properties, we would just lease them. The commonwealth said that would be no problem, and that it would lease them to us for $250 to $300 a week but, by the way, it would not do any maintenance on the properties either. That is the sort of rogue landlord approach to housing that one would expect to see on Today Tonight ; that is the commonwealth’s approach to affordable housing. Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
Next week in Perth, 800 delegates will attend the National Housing Conference. Also, the national housing ministers conference will be held and the key to that whole conference is housing affordability. We want to address with the commonwealth the issue of commonwealth rent assistance. This is a very important issue for you, Mr Speaker, because when we have tried to address commonwealth rent assistance because of the high rents in places such as Karratha, Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, the commonwealth has dismissed it out of hand. The commonwealth has said that it will not regionalise commonwealth rent assistance. It is not interested in talking about that at all, but it will be on the agenda next week when Kay Patterson is back in town. When we put a proposition to the commonwealth to take over some of the houses it owns to address the issue of social housing in a place like Fremantle, its argument was that we should spend millions of dollars restoring the barracks before it would sell them, or we could lease them for between $250 and $300 a week but the commonwealth would not provide any maintenance. This is the commonwealth government’s attitude to housing affordability. The commonwealth government is a joke and a disgrace, and should be condemned.
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