❓ Mrs Roberts questions the Premier about a constituent, Mr. Green, who was denied a meeting after approaching the Premier regarding a new bullet design. The Premier agrees to have someone from the government meet with Mr. Green, but accuses Roberts of politicizing the issue.
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MR CLIFF GREEN — APPROACH TO PREMIER AND MINISTER FOR POLICE
I have a supplementary question. Subsequent to my discussions with the Premier last Wednesday and Thursday, Mr Green received a letter acknowledging correspondence to the Premier of last week and declining to have any further meetings with him. Can I now understand from the Premier’s undertaking that he will personally meet with Mr Green? Mr C.J. BARNETT
I have a supplementary question. Subsequent to my discussions with the Premier last Wednesday and Thursday, Mr Green received a letter acknowledging correspondence to the Premier of last week and declining to have any further meetings with him. Can I now understand from the Premier’s undertaking that he will personally meet with Mr Green? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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I have no objection to meeting with Mr Green, but this is not the way to conduct lobbying activities. It is a bit strange. The member for Midland has raised an issue with me from a constituent of hers who has developed a type of bullet that, on her description to me, has some application in defence and other areas. I said to her last week that I am prepared to see what we can do to assist with that. That has not happened yet, but it has been a busy week. I am prepared, if not to meet Mr Green myself—I am not sure that I can provide him with much direct advice—then certainly to try to assist him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: I have no objection to meeting with Mr Green, but this is not the way to conduct lobbying activities. It is a bit strange. The member for Midland has raised an issue with me from a constituent of hers who has developed a type of bullet that, on her description to me, has some application in defence and other areas. I said to her last week that I am prepared to see what we can do to assist with that. That has not happened yet, but it has been a busy week. I am prepared, if not to meet Mr Green myself—I am not sure that I can provide him with much direct advice—then certainly to try to assist him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
I have no objection to meeting with Mr Green, but this is not the way to conduct lobbying activities. It is a bit strange. The member for Midland has raised an issue with me from a constituent of hers who has developed a type of bullet that, on her description to me, has some application in defence and other areas. I said to her last week that I am prepared to see what we can do to assist with that. That has not happened yet, but it has been a busy week. I am prepared, if not to meet Mr Green myself—I am not sure that I can provide him with much direct advice—then certainly to try to assist him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: I have no objection to meeting with Mr Green, but this is not the way to conduct lobbying activities. It is a bit strange. The member for Midland has raised an issue with me from a constituent of hers who has developed a type of bullet that, on her description to me, has some application in defence and other areas. I said to her last week that I am prepared to see what we can do to assist with that. That has not happened yet, but it has been a busy week. I am prepared, if not to meet Mr Green myself—I am not sure that I can provide him with much direct advice—then certainly to try to assist him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
I have no objection to meeting with Mr Green, but this is not the way to conduct lobbying activities. It is a bit strange. The member for Midland has raised an issue with me from a constituent of hers who has developed a type of bullet that, on her description to me, has some application in defence and other areas. I said to her last week that I am prepared to see what we can do to assist with that. That has not happened yet, but it has been a busy week. I am prepared, if not to meet Mr Green myself—I am not sure that I can provide him with much direct advice—then certainly to try to assist him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
The SPEAKER : Order! I would like to move on with question time. The member for Midland has asked a supplementary question, and the Premier is endeavouring to answer it. The member for Midland might not necessarily like the answer being given, but that is the answer the house is entitled to hear. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : The issue in reality probably relates to agencies other than police in terms of the manufacture of this particular item. I give an undertaking that we will make sure that, if not I, then other appropriate people within the government will meet with Mr Green. I suggest to Mr Green, whom I have not met, that he has done the right thing in raising an issue with his local member of Parliament. His local member of Parliament did the right thing in raising the issue with me as Premier. The only reason this has gone off the rails is that now the member is trying to make a political event one week after approaching me on the issue. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : Your office has fobbed him off on to the Minister for Police, and the Minister for Police has fobbed him off altogether. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I do not know Mr Green, but I have no doubt that he is a totally credible person trying to establish his business. If he has made one slight mistake, it is to engage in a political exercise instead of a genuine exercise in assisting him to develop its product.
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