QoN about previous government's plan for land sale proceeds in Kalgoorlie, specifically regarding a proposed golf course. Minister reveals funds were intended for a digital land titles project, not the golf course, criticising the previous government's handling of the funds.

AnsweredQoN 151Legislative Assembly
Asked
26 June 2001
Member
Portfolio
Planning and Infrastructure

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LAND SALES, KALGOORLIE-BOULDER 151. Mr BOWLER to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure: Recently the minister tabled the minutes of a LandCorp meeting held in November last year which showed the previous Government had been aware that it was highly unlikely that the value of land sales in Kalgoorlie-Boulder would cover the construction of a 36-hole grass golf course. Can the minister advise on what the previous Government had planned to spend the proceeds of those land sales? Ms MacTIERNAN

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I thank the member for some notice of this question. This is a very interesting saga. It is called track the dollars to find out from where the money for this 36-hole course would come. As we discovered last week, LandCorp said that even when that land was sold and the money was added to the $3 million in the consolidated fund, it would not have anywhere near the money required to build this golf course. Now an examination of the documents indicates that even the money the Department of Land Administration receives from the land sales will not go towards the golf course, making it an even more challenging proposition. The suggestion has been made that, somehow or other, these naughty bureaucrats have done something with the money. An opposition member: Very naughty ministers. Ms MacTIERNAN: I think the member is absolutely right; there were some very naughty ministers. I have a letter from the Minister for Lands - a very naughty minister - to the then Treasurer. I will quote one paragraph from the letter. Mr Kobelke: Which Minister for Lands? Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
LAND SALES, KALGOORLIE-BOULDER
Recently the minister tabled the minutes of a LandCorp meeting held in November last year which showed the previous Government had been aware that it was highly unlikely that the value of land sales in Kalgoorlie-Boulder would cover the construction of a 36-hole grass golf course. Can the minister advise on what the previous Government had planned to spend the proceeds of those land sales? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. This is a very interesting saga. It is called track the dollars to find out from where the money for this 36-hole course would come. As we discovered last week, LandCorp said that even when that land was sold and the money was added to the $3 million in the consolidated fund, it would not have anywhere near the money required to build this golf course. Now an examination of the documents indicates that even the money the Department of Land Administration receives from the land sales will not go towards the golf course, making it an even more challenging proposition. The suggestion has been made that, somehow or other, these naughty bureaucrats have done something with the money. An opposition member: Very naughty ministers. Ms MacTIERNAN: I think the member is absolutely right; there were some very naughty ministers. I have a letter from the Minister for Lands - a very naughty minister - to the then Treasurer. I will quote one paragraph from the letter. Mr Kobelke: Which Minister for Lands? Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. This is a very interesting saga. It is called track the dollars to find out from where the money for this 36-hole course would come. As we discovered last week, LandCorp said that even when that land was sold and the money was added to the $3 million in the consolidated fund, it would not have anywhere near the money required to build this golf course. Now an examination of the documents indicates that even the money the Department of Land Administration receives from the land sales will not go towards the golf course, making it an even more challenging proposition. The suggestion has been made that, somehow or other, these naughty bureaucrats have done something with the money. An opposition member: Very naughty ministers. Ms MacTIERNAN: I think the member is absolutely right; there were some very naughty ministers. I have a letter from the Minister for Lands - a very naughty minister - to the then Treasurer. I will quote one paragraph from the letter. Mr Kobelke: Which Minister for Lands? Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. This is a very interesting saga. It is called track the dollars to find out from where the money for this 36-hole course would come. As we discovered last week, LandCorp said that even when that land was sold and the money was added to the $3 million in the consolidated fund, it would not have anywhere near the money required to build this golf course. Now an examination of the documents indicates that even the money the Department of Land Administration receives from the land sales will not go towards the golf course, making it an even more challenging proposition. The suggestion has been made that, somehow or other, these naughty bureaucrats have done something with the money. An opposition member: Very naughty ministers. Ms MacTIERNAN: I think the member is absolutely right; there were some very naughty ministers. I have a letter from the Minister for Lands - a very naughty minister - to the then Treasurer. I will quote one paragraph from the letter. Mr Kobelke: Which Minister for Lands? Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
An opposition member: Very naughty ministers. Ms MacTIERNAN: I think the member is absolutely right; there were some very naughty ministers. I have a letter from the Minister for Lands - a very naughty minister - to the then Treasurer. I will quote one paragraph from the letter. Mr Kobelke: Which Minister for Lands? Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
Ms MacTIERNAN: I think the member is absolutely right; there were some very naughty ministers. I have a letter from the Minister for Lands - a very naughty minister - to the then Treasurer. I will quote one paragraph from the letter. Mr Kobelke: Which Minister for Lands? Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
Mr Kobelke: Which Minister for Lands? Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
Ms MacTIERNAN: The former Minister for Lands. He says that the currently unfunded electronic land titles digital back capture project is on a critical path for delivery of DOLA’s online strategy. The letter then says - In recognition of this, I have personally developed this proposal in conjunction with the Chairman of LandCorp and the Chief Executive of DOLA in respect to DOLA’s land holdings in Kalgoorlie. The State has met the requirements of the native Title . . . The letter continues - I have also had informal talks with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Mayor about their . . . involvement in the project. This would allow early access to funds . . . held by the City following the sale by Council of the former airport site. In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels. That money would go not into a golf course, but into the digital back capture program. That was endorsed by the Department of Land Administration, and subsequently approved and included in DOLA’s 2000-01 and 2001-02 capital works budget. It was personally brokered by the former Minister for Lands. I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.
In short, the proposal is that LandCorp, possibly in a joint venture with the City, would buy out DOLA’s interest in agreed superlot parcels.
I can guarantee the people of Kalgoorlie that under Labor the money from the land sales in Kalgoorlie will go back to the Kalgoorlie community.

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