❓ Question regarding the success of the LED school zone sign program, with the Minister highlighting the government's progress compared to the previous Labor government. Includes some political point-scoring and irrelevant tangents.
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Schools — Electronic Speed Zone Signs
Will the minister please outline to the house the success of the LED-light 40-kilometre-an-hour school signs program that appears to have significantly accelerated under the Liberal–National government? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
Will the minister please outline to the house the success of the LED-light 40-kilometre-an-hour school signs program that appears to have significantly accelerated under the Liberal–National government? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
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I thank the member for Riverton for his question. He is right: the LED flashing light safety program has been one of the great successes of this government. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It was introduced by the Labor government. It was introduced by us! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the member for Riverton for his question. He is right: the LED flashing light safety program has been one of the great successes of this government. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It was introduced by the Labor government. It was introduced by us! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
I thank the member for Riverton for his question. He is right: the LED flashing light safety program has been one of the great successes of this government. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It was introduced by the Labor government. It was introduced by us! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : It was introduced by the Labor government. It was introduced by us! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the member for Riverton for his question. He is right: the LED flashing light safety program has been one of the great successes of this government. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It was introduced by the Labor government. It was introduced by us! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
I thank the member for Riverton for his question. He is right: the LED flashing light safety program has been one of the great successes of this government. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It was introduced by the Labor government. It was introduced by us! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : It was introduced by the Labor government. It was introduced by us! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : We will talk about that in a minute, member for Midland. Every school I go to where one of these signs has been installed is grateful for the efforts of the government in funding that program. It is often interesting to reflect. Before 1997 and the Court government, there were no signs around schools to warn people of school zones. In 1997, the 40-kilometre-an-hour signage regime was introduced. Effectively, that means that in the morning from 7.30 to 9.00 and in the afternoon between 2.30 and 4.00 drivers have to travel at 40 kilometres an hour outside of schools—especially on busy roads. Today, some 530 schools across the Perth metropolitan area have school speed zones. We have done a bit—in fact, we have done a lot—of work on existing zones, including installing new high-visibility signs and placing line markings on roads to assist people to understand that they are approaching a school. However, as the member for Riverton indicated, the biggest advance is in the introduction of the flashing electronic school zone signs. They are a very clear and precise indicator of a school. The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The member for Midland is right: during seven years in government, Labor put in some of these signs. The Labor government put in some! A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
A member: How many? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Five! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I counted them. Five signs were installed under seven years of Labor! By the end of this financial year we will have installed 71 at a cost of $2.84 million. Thankfully, for the schools around Western Australia, the number of signs will increase from five under Labor’s watch to 71, and it will continue to grow. It is an issue that is topical among community representatives. I often get correspondence from members in this place about flashing signs. I thought that I would provide some updates to some of those members. For example, the member for Balcatta wrote to me on 1 August 2011 about an LED sign outside Balcatta Primary School. That will be installed this year. I was interested to note that although he has been a member of Parliament for only 22 and a half years, he wrote to me at the same time that a local community action group was organising a petition about the sign, which was to be presented in the upper house by Hon Liz Behjat. However, if that is what it takes to encourage the member for Balcatta to put pen to paper, that is good news! Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Did he write to the Labor transport minister? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am not sure whether he wrote to the Labor transport minister. I suspect not, Premier. However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
However, the other good news that I should tell the member for Balcatta before I forget is that Balcatta Senior High School and West Balcatta Primary School on Amelia Street will also get signs this year. Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr J.C. Kobelke : And Hutton Street? It has three times as many vehicles. Hutton Street, please, as well! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Why not write to me? I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
I picked up another publication the other week, The Waddell Report , which mysteriously appears, delivered late at night, in letterboxes across the eastern suburbs. I open the publication and here on the first page is a vicious attack on the cat laws by a member of Parliament who voted for the cat laws. I find it staggering that the member for Forrestfield’s inside-cover piece is a picture of the member and his pussy! Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Here he is, with his little moggy and — Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : I fail to see the relevance of this, Mr Speaker. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah, I do not know that that is necessary. Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Regarding the point of order, member for Rockingham, I understand it and am hoping myself that there is some relevance in what the Minister for Transport is about to say to the question that he has been asked. Thank you for drawing the point of order to my attention. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I was distracted by the article on the cat laws, but on the next page is an article, “40km School Zone Flashing Lights”, which is written with the same degree of accuracy. It states — Whilst I welcome the news of the Flashing School Zone lights, we have still not been given any certainty that they are likely to arrive. Mr A.J. Waddell : “When” they are likely to arrive, exactly! You don’t give certainty, do you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : To help the member for Forrestfield when he is out rambling through his electorate — Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr A.J. Waddell : You just wander up and make a random promise. It’s like the train, isn’t it? You just had a thought: “Hey, let’s put a train in Forrestfield.” Where’s your money? Hey? You’re a joke! The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Member for Forrestfield, there are ways and means, which you know, to deal with this. I formally call you to order for the first time. I formally call the member for Mandurah to order for the first time today as well. Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr P.B. Watson : But he was attacking him. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I formally call you to order for the first time today. Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr P.B. Watson interjected. The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : If you want to be called to order for a second time, I will oblige you in that respect as well. Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Minister for Transport, I do not want you to take too much longer with the answer to this question. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : No, Mr Speaker. I will leave this for the member for Forrestfield, because, obviously, he does not get around his electorate much. I have a map of his electorate here. The yellow mark shows where his electorate office is located. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Does the member know where his electorate office is? Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr A.J. Waddell : I know where it is. I know — Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The blue marks — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
The SPEAKER : Take a seat, minister. Member for Riverton, I formally call you to order for the first time today. I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
I will quite happily leave the chair for a few moments, or close question time down if you like, but I do not think members would like that. However, I will sit and I will take another question. I consider this question closed.
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