❓ Mr Waldron questions the Minister for Electoral Affairs about honouring a pre-election policy regarding regional representation and telecommunications. The Minister responds by focusing on electoral fairness and criticising the opposition.
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REGIONAL WA, GOVERNMENT POLICY 305. Mr WALDRON to the Minister for Electoral Affairs: I refer to Labor’s pre-election policy entitled “a fair go for regional WA”, which states that “government must take a strong role in making sure that greater centralisation is not the outcome of vastly improved telecommunications”. Will the minister honour this policy by reversing his effort to centralise political representation in Perth; and will he withdraw his argument that improved telecommunications means that country people can make do with less political representation? Mr McGINTY
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Last week we debated for two very full days the question of electoral fairness in Western Australia, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government of this State. We on this side of the House stand by that commitment. Even if members opposite want to deny that principle of equality, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government, we will persevere with that principle, because it is right, and it will for the first time in the 100 years of the history of this Parliament give us a Parliament which we can be proud of and which has some integrity rather than one that relies on vote rigging by members opposite.
REGIONAL WA, GOVERNMENT POLICY
I refer to Labor’s pre-election policy entitled “a fair go for regional WA”, which states that “government must take a strong role in making sure that greater centralisation is not the outcome of vastly improved telecommunications”. Will the minister honour this policy by reversing his effort to centralise political representation in Perth; and will he withdraw his argument that improved telecommunications means that country people can make do with less political representation? Mr McGINTY replied: Last week we debated for two very full days the question of electoral fairness in Western Australia, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government of this State. We on this side of the House stand by that commitment. Even if members opposite want to deny that principle of equality, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government, we will persevere with that principle, because it is right, and it will for the first time in the 100 years of the history of this Parliament give us a Parliament which we can be proud of and which has some integrity rather than one that relies on vote rigging by members opposite.
Mr McGINTY replied: Last week we debated for two very full days the question of electoral fairness in Western Australia, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government of this State. We on this side of the House stand by that commitment. Even if members opposite want to deny that principle of equality, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government, we will persevere with that principle, because it is right, and it will for the first time in the 100 years of the history of this Parliament give us a Parliament which we can be proud of and which has some integrity rather than one that relies on vote rigging by members opposite.
Last week we debated for two very full days the question of electoral fairness in Western Australia, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government of this State. We on this side of the House stand by that commitment. Even if members opposite want to deny that principle of equality, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government, we will persevere with that principle, because it is right, and it will for the first time in the 100 years of the history of this Parliament give us a Parliament which we can be proud of and which has some integrity rather than one that relies on vote rigging by members opposite.
REGIONAL WA, GOVERNMENT POLICY
I refer to Labor’s pre-election policy entitled “a fair go for regional WA”, which states that “government must take a strong role in making sure that greater centralisation is not the outcome of vastly improved telecommunications”. Will the minister honour this policy by reversing his effort to centralise political representation in Perth; and will he withdraw his argument that improved telecommunications means that country people can make do with less political representation? Mr McGINTY replied: Last week we debated for two very full days the question of electoral fairness in Western Australia, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government of this State. We on this side of the House stand by that commitment. Even if members opposite want to deny that principle of equality, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government, we will persevere with that principle, because it is right, and it will for the first time in the 100 years of the history of this Parliament give us a Parliament which we can be proud of and which has some integrity rather than one that relies on vote rigging by members opposite.
Mr McGINTY replied: Last week we debated for two very full days the question of electoral fairness in Western Australia, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government of this State. We on this side of the House stand by that commitment. Even if members opposite want to deny that principle of equality, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government, we will persevere with that principle, because it is right, and it will for the first time in the 100 years of the history of this Parliament give us a Parliament which we can be proud of and which has some integrity rather than one that relies on vote rigging by members opposite.
Last week we debated for two very full days the question of electoral fairness in Western Australia, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government of this State. We on this side of the House stand by that commitment. Even if members opposite want to deny that principle of equality, with every citizen having an equal say in electing the Government, we will persevere with that principle, because it is right, and it will for the first time in the 100 years of the history of this Parliament give us a Parliament which we can be proud of and which has some integrity rather than one that relies on vote rigging by members opposite.
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