❓ Supplementary question regarding the Premier's policy to address the two-speed economy in Western Australia during the resources boom. The Premier focuses on major project development and investment.
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RESOURCES BOOM — PREMIER’S COMMENTS
I have a supplementary question. What is the Premier’s actual policy to deal with the two-speed economy in Western Australia? Mr C.J. BARNETT
I have a supplementary question. What is the Premier’s actual policy to deal with the two-speed economy in Western Australia? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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Each area of the economy has a minister with responsibility and each minister does his job. My responsibility as Minister for State Development is to first get these big projects over the line to get them into construction and into production. With the support of other ministers, I think we are doing a fair job. The Ord River project—since 1972—with the assistance of the Minister for Regional Development, who is leading the project, is under construction; Gorgon, under construction; Perdaman, hopefully, going into construction midyear; Browse, very close to reaching final agreement with the Aboriginal people; Oakajee, still tricky, still difficult, but getting there inch by inch, day by day. That is my prime job as state development minister. What does that do? That brings perhaps extraordinarily large amounts of investment dollars into this state, and yes, we can argue the percentage, but a large part of that is distributed throughout our economy. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: Each area of the economy has a minister with responsibility and each minister does his job. My responsibility as Minister for State Development is to first get these big projects over the line to get them into construction and into production. With the support of other ministers, I think we are doing a fair job. The Ord River project—since 1972—with the assistance of the Minister for Regional Development, who is leading the project, is under construction; Gorgon, under construction; Perdaman, hopefully, going into construction midyear; Browse, very close to reaching final agreement with the Aboriginal people; Oakajee, still tricky, still difficult, but getting there inch by inch, day by day. That is my prime job as state development minister. What does that do? That brings perhaps extraordinarily large amounts of investment dollars into this state, and yes, we can argue the percentage, but a large part of that is distributed throughout our economy. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Each area of the economy has a minister with responsibility and each minister does his job. My responsibility as Minister for State Development is to first get these big projects over the line to get them into construction and into production. With the support of other ministers, I think we are doing a fair job. The Ord River project—since 1972—with the assistance of the Minister for Regional Development, who is leading the project, is under construction; Gorgon, under construction; Perdaman, hopefully, going into construction midyear; Browse, very close to reaching final agreement with the Aboriginal people; Oakajee, still tricky, still difficult, but getting there inch by inch, day by day. That is my prime job as state development minister. What does that do? That brings perhaps extraordinarily large amounts of investment dollars into this state, and yes, we can argue the percentage, but a large part of that is distributed throughout our economy. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Several members interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: Each area of the economy has a minister with responsibility and each minister does his job. My responsibility as Minister for State Development is to first get these big projects over the line to get them into construction and into production. With the support of other ministers, I think we are doing a fair job. The Ord River project—since 1972—with the assistance of the Minister for Regional Development, who is leading the project, is under construction; Gorgon, under construction; Perdaman, hopefully, going into construction midyear; Browse, very close to reaching final agreement with the Aboriginal people; Oakajee, still tricky, still difficult, but getting there inch by inch, day by day. That is my prime job as state development minister. What does that do? That brings perhaps extraordinarily large amounts of investment dollars into this state, and yes, we can argue the percentage, but a large part of that is distributed throughout our economy. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Each area of the economy has a minister with responsibility and each minister does his job. My responsibility as Minister for State Development is to first get these big projects over the line to get them into construction and into production. With the support of other ministers, I think we are doing a fair job. The Ord River project—since 1972—with the assistance of the Minister for Regional Development, who is leading the project, is under construction; Gorgon, under construction; Perdaman, hopefully, going into construction midyear; Browse, very close to reaching final agreement with the Aboriginal people; Oakajee, still tricky, still difficult, but getting there inch by inch, day by day. That is my prime job as state development minister. What does that do? That brings perhaps extraordinarily large amounts of investment dollars into this state, and yes, we can argue the percentage, but a large part of that is distributed throughout our economy. Several members interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Several members interjected. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Members should walk outside this chamber to the front of the Parliament, stand on the balcony and look at what is happening in the city. That is the effect of the development. It comes from big investment and big projects. Yes, part of the task is to make sure benefits are dispersed across the economy. That is what we are doing in all areas of the economy. That is the task we are undertaking. But the precondition is to get the projects in the first place.
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