❓ Mr. Jacob raises concerns about rising sea levels in Ocean Reef. Minister Day outlines a mapping study using advanced technology to assess coastal vulnerability and inform future development, highlighting the government's proactive approach.
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SEA LEVELS — MAPPING STUDY
There is significant community concern in my electorate of Ocean Reef about the effects of climate change, the melting of polar ice, rising sea levels and the possibility of coastal inundation. Will the minister please outline what he is doing to address the long-term threat of rising sea levels along the Western Australian coastline? Mr J.H.D. DAY
There is significant community concern in my electorate of Ocean Reef about the effects of climate change, the melting of polar ice, rising sea levels and the possibility of coastal inundation. Will the minister please outline what he is doing to address the long-term threat of rising sea levels along the Western Australian coastline? Mr J.H.D. DAY
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I thank the member for the question. I suspect that members opposite have no idea what it is all about, but I will inform them. I know that the member for Ocean Reef, at least, has a strong interest in these issues. As he stated in the question, the prospect of atmospheric warming and consequent sea level rises is a matter of significant concern to all countries in the world that have coastal communities. That is particularly the case in Western Australia because of our predilection for urban coastal development. I am pleased to say that the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the WA Planning Commission are being proactive in this area and have commissioned a mapping study to gather much more detailed information about the nature and character of our shoreline, particularly the area between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. Several members interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I thank the member for the question. I suspect that members opposite have no idea what it is all about, but I will inform them. I know that the member for Ocean Reef, at least, has a strong interest in these issues. As he stated in the question, the prospect of atmospheric warming and consequent sea level rises is a matter of significant concern to all countries in the world that have coastal communities. That is particularly the case in Western Australia because of our predilection for urban coastal development. I am pleased to say that the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the WA Planning Commission are being proactive in this area and have commissioned a mapping study to gather much more detailed information about the nature and character of our shoreline, particularly the area between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. Several members interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
I thank the member for the question. I suspect that members opposite have no idea what it is all about, but I will inform them. I know that the member for Ocean Reef, at least, has a strong interest in these issues. As he stated in the question, the prospect of atmospheric warming and consequent sea level rises is a matter of significant concern to all countries in the world that have coastal communities. That is particularly the case in Western Australia because of our predilection for urban coastal development. I am pleased to say that the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the WA Planning Commission are being proactive in this area and have commissioned a mapping study to gather much more detailed information about the nature and character of our shoreline, particularly the area between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. Several members interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Several members interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I thank the member for the question. I suspect that members opposite have no idea what it is all about, but I will inform them. I know that the member for Ocean Reef, at least, has a strong interest in these issues. As he stated in the question, the prospect of atmospheric warming and consequent sea level rises is a matter of significant concern to all countries in the world that have coastal communities. That is particularly the case in Western Australia because of our predilection for urban coastal development. I am pleased to say that the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the WA Planning Commission are being proactive in this area and have commissioned a mapping study to gather much more detailed information about the nature and character of our shoreline, particularly the area between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. Several members interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
I thank the member for the question. I suspect that members opposite have no idea what it is all about, but I will inform them. I know that the member for Ocean Reef, at least, has a strong interest in these issues. As he stated in the question, the prospect of atmospheric warming and consequent sea level rises is a matter of significant concern to all countries in the world that have coastal communities. That is particularly the case in Western Australia because of our predilection for urban coastal development. I am pleased to say that the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the WA Planning Commission are being proactive in this area and have commissioned a mapping study to gather much more detailed information about the nature and character of our shoreline, particularly the area between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. Several members interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Several members interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : It is clearly the silly season for the opposition because it is budget day. They are suffering a degree of relevance deprivation syndrome, given that it will be the first budget of the new government. This is an important issue, which I am sure some members would be interested in. The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
The study that is being undertaken is using light detection and ranging technology, and it will acquire complete and seamless high resolution bathymetric and seabed data to support the development of special models for the analysis of environmental and human impacts along the Western Australian coast. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : Do you support an emissions trading scheme? Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : The issue of atmospheric warming needs to be dealt with. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : By making a map? The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
The SPEAKER : Member! Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : All Australian political parties recognise that the issue of atmospheric warming needs to be appropriately addressed and that economic measures must be put in place to deal with that. The debate is about how and when that should happen. Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : After Ocean Reef has sunk! Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : We are ensuring that Ocean Reef and other coastal communities in Western Australia will not sink. This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
This $1.6 million exercise, using high technology, will determine the nature of the seabed and the coastline between Two Rocks and Cape Naturaliste. We will have much better information about protecting existing coastal communities and about where and how far back from the coastline urban developments should occur in the future. I congratulate all the officers in the Department for Planning and Infrastructure and the Planning Commission for the work that is being undertaken in this area.
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