❓ Mrs. Hayden questions the government's lack of a stimulus package for small businesses during job losses due to COVID-19. Mr. Cook defends the government's existing economic measures and criticizes the previous Liberal government's financial management.
AnsweredQoN 151Legislative Assembly
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CORONAVIRUS —
STIMULUS PACKAGE
151. Mrs A.K. HAYDEN to the Deputy Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
With jobs being lost now, how come the government is not delivering a stimulus
package to support small businesses? Is the state government simply sitting
back and relying on the federal Liberal government to do it for it?
Several members interjected.
Mrs A.K. HAYDEN : This is
serious.
STIMULUS PACKAGE
151. Mrs A.K. HAYDEN to the Deputy Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
With jobs being lost now, how come the government is not delivering a stimulus
package to support small businesses? Is the state government simply sitting
back and relying on the federal Liberal government to do it for it?
Several members interjected.
Mrs A.K. HAYDEN : This is
serious.
AnswerView source ↗
Mr Speaker —
Several members interjected.
Mrs A.K. Hayden : Go and talk
to your small businesses.
Mr R.H. COOK : I know that if
the member is going to come into the small business portfolio, she has to know
more about the Red Bull Air Race than she has demonstrated so far. If the
member is to enter the debate, she will need to do her homework and get across
her brief. Do not come into this place trying to preach economic stimulus
without having the track record of this government, which has already cut
payroll tax, with another cut due in January next year, and has already introduced
stamp duty rebates of up to $50 000 for off-the-plan developments to help our
local businesses and building industry going forward. We have undertaken a $200
million maintenance blitz for every school in WA, including the schools in the
member's electorate, where local businesses can go and do small-level
work, which will generate jobs and enable them to spend their hard-earned cash
in local businesses. We provided another $80 million for hospitals right around
the state. No state government has done more than this one to stimulate the
economy and try to insulate small businesses and other businesses in the
community from the impact of COVID-19. Thank
goodness for the McGowan government, because if it were left up to the Liberal
Party after the way it left the state's finances and drove the
economy into the ground, we would all be doomed.
The SPEAKER : That concludes
question time.
Several members interjected.
Mrs A.K. Hayden : Go and talk
to your small businesses.
Mr R.H. COOK : I know that if
the member is going to come into the small business portfolio, she has to know
more about the Red Bull Air Race than she has demonstrated so far. If the
member is to enter the debate, she will need to do her homework and get across
her brief. Do not come into this place trying to preach economic stimulus
without having the track record of this government, which has already cut
payroll tax, with another cut due in January next year, and has already introduced
stamp duty rebates of up to $50 000 for off-the-plan developments to help our
local businesses and building industry going forward. We have undertaken a $200
million maintenance blitz for every school in WA, including the schools in the
member's electorate, where local businesses can go and do small-level
work, which will generate jobs and enable them to spend their hard-earned cash
in local businesses. We provided another $80 million for hospitals right around
the state. No state government has done more than this one to stimulate the
economy and try to insulate small businesses and other businesses in the
community from the impact of COVID-19. Thank
goodness for the McGowan government, because if it were left up to the Liberal
Party after the way it left the state's finances and drove the
economy into the ground, we would all be doomed.
The SPEAKER : That concludes
question time.
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