❓ A parliamentary question on notice addresses delays in the implementation of a new road safety strategy, funding concerns, and commitment to presenting the strategy. The Minister's response defends the government's actions and criticizes the opposition's past record on road safety.
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I refer the minister to the major initiatives for 2003-04 on page 97 of the Budget Statements , which state in part - A new five-year Road Safety Strategy for Western Australia will be implemented . . . following Government endorsement. (1) Will the minister confirm that such a strategy, despite being in her possession for six months, has not yet been before Cabinet? (2) Given that the 2003-04 budget contains no funding for the implementation of such a strategy, will the minister concede that this Government has no intention of implementing the new road safety strategy in the coming financial year? (3) If no to (2), will the minister commit to presenting the new five-year road safety strategy within the next month, and to procuring all additional funding necessary for its implementation? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(2) Given that the 2003-04 budget contains no funding for the implementation of such a strategy, will the minister concede that this Government has no intention of implementing the new road safety strategy in the coming financial year? (3) If no to (2), will the minister commit to presenting the new five-year road safety strategy within the next month, and to procuring all additional funding necessary for its implementation? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(3) If no to (2), will the minister commit to presenting the new five-year road safety strategy within the next month, and to procuring all additional funding necessary for its implementation? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(2) Given that the 2003-04 budget contains no funding for the implementation of such a strategy, will the minister concede that this Government has no intention of implementing the new road safety strategy in the coming financial year? (3) If no to (2), will the minister commit to presenting the new five-year road safety strategy within the next month, and to procuring all additional funding necessary for its implementation? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(3) If no to (2), will the minister commit to presenting the new five-year road safety strategy within the next month, and to procuring all additional funding necessary for its implementation? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Interestingly, we now have an Opposition that wants to give this matter some priority. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition was on the relevant committee when in government and did nothing to progress the road safety strategy. Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Check your facts! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It is a fact; I have been advised of this by the Office of Road Safety. The Leader of the Opposition has no commitment to road safety, as was illustrated by his absolutely ignorant remarks about the freeway. He did not want a speed camera placed where Ben Holyoake was killed, and where dozens and dozens of people speed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not think speed on the freeway is an issue, he is sadly mistaken. The Opposition would like about six people an hour to be caught for speeding, rather than 60 people an hour; it believes that people should be able to get away with speeding on the freeway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite are bleeding badly because my answer is hurting them. The simple answers to the questions are as follows. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(1) Yes. (2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(2) No. (3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
(3) The ministerial council has been giving consideration to the road safety strategy. Dr Narelle Howarth from the Monash University Accident Research Centre - MUARC - has been across to discuss the strategy. I advise the member for Carine that some elements of the strategy have already been implemented. Those matters are on budget.
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