❓ Question regarding a $40m funding boost to the WA health system is answered with details of where the funding will be allocated. The Premier then uses the opportunity to attack the opposition's stance on the AlintaGas sale and internal party issues.
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On the weekend the Government announced a $40m funding boost to the Western Australian health system. How will this funding boost benefit all Western Australians? Mr COURT
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The Minister for Health made that announcement, and the funding will go into a wide range of projects, including upgrading at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, significant new equipment, technology, improved recovery facilities at the Swan, Rockingham and Osborne Park hospitals, and the list goes on. It will be very beneficial to the delivery of improved health services across the State. On the weekend I found it rather strange that the Leader of the Opposition thought he would be tricky and hold a press conference to say how the Opposition would spend the proceeds from the sale of AlintaGas. What a nerve! What hypocrisy for members opposite to oppose at every opportunity the sale of AlintaGas, and when it is successfully completed to then jump in front of a television camera and say, “This is how we would spend the money.” How can the Leader of the Opposition sleep at night when he uses those sorts of tactics? The Labor Party is trying to say that this Government has cut expenditure on health. This Government has averaged an increase in expenditure of 6 per cent a year; during the last three years of the Labor Government it was 3.8 per cent. This Government has nearly doubled expenditure on health compared with what Labor was doing. We are going into an election - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT replied: The Minister for Health made that announcement, and the funding will go into a wide range of projects, including upgrading at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, significant new equipment, technology, improved recovery facilities at the Swan, Rockingham and Osborne Park hospitals, and the list goes on. It will be very beneficial to the delivery of improved health services across the State. On the weekend I found it rather strange that the Leader of the Opposition thought he would be tricky and hold a press conference to say how the Opposition would spend the proceeds from the sale of AlintaGas. What a nerve! What hypocrisy for members opposite to oppose at every opportunity the sale of AlintaGas, and when it is successfully completed to then jump in front of a television camera and say, “This is how we would spend the money.” How can the Leader of the Opposition sleep at night when he uses those sorts of tactics? The Labor Party is trying to say that this Government has cut expenditure on health. This Government has averaged an increase in expenditure of 6 per cent a year; during the last three years of the Labor Government it was 3.8 per cent. This Government has nearly doubled expenditure on health compared with what Labor was doing. We are going into an election - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The Minister for Health made that announcement, and the funding will go into a wide range of projects, including upgrading at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, significant new equipment, technology, improved recovery facilities at the Swan, Rockingham and Osborne Park hospitals, and the list goes on. It will be very beneficial to the delivery of improved health services across the State. On the weekend I found it rather strange that the Leader of the Opposition thought he would be tricky and hold a press conference to say how the Opposition would spend the proceeds from the sale of AlintaGas. What a nerve! What hypocrisy for members opposite to oppose at every opportunity the sale of AlintaGas, and when it is successfully completed to then jump in front of a television camera and say, “This is how we would spend the money.” How can the Leader of the Opposition sleep at night when he uses those sorts of tactics? The Labor Party is trying to say that this Government has cut expenditure on health. This Government has averaged an increase in expenditure of 6 per cent a year; during the last three years of the Labor Government it was 3.8 per cent. This Government has nearly doubled expenditure on health compared with what Labor was doing. We are going into an election - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
On the weekend I found it rather strange that the Leader of the Opposition thought he would be tricky and hold a press conference to say how the Opposition would spend the proceeds from the sale of AlintaGas. What a nerve! What hypocrisy for members opposite to oppose at every opportunity the sale of AlintaGas, and when it is successfully completed to then jump in front of a television camera and say, “This is how we would spend the money.” How can the Leader of the Opposition sleep at night when he uses those sorts of tactics? The Labor Party is trying to say that this Government has cut expenditure on health. This Government has averaged an increase in expenditure of 6 per cent a year; during the last three years of the Labor Government it was 3.8 per cent. This Government has nearly doubled expenditure on health compared with what Labor was doing. We are going into an election - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT replied: The Minister for Health made that announcement, and the funding will go into a wide range of projects, including upgrading at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, significant new equipment, technology, improved recovery facilities at the Swan, Rockingham and Osborne Park hospitals, and the list goes on. It will be very beneficial to the delivery of improved health services across the State. On the weekend I found it rather strange that the Leader of the Opposition thought he would be tricky and hold a press conference to say how the Opposition would spend the proceeds from the sale of AlintaGas. What a nerve! What hypocrisy for members opposite to oppose at every opportunity the sale of AlintaGas, and when it is successfully completed to then jump in front of a television camera and say, “This is how we would spend the money.” How can the Leader of the Opposition sleep at night when he uses those sorts of tactics? The Labor Party is trying to say that this Government has cut expenditure on health. This Government has averaged an increase in expenditure of 6 per cent a year; during the last three years of the Labor Government it was 3.8 per cent. This Government has nearly doubled expenditure on health compared with what Labor was doing. We are going into an election - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The Minister for Health made that announcement, and the funding will go into a wide range of projects, including upgrading at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, significant new equipment, technology, improved recovery facilities at the Swan, Rockingham and Osborne Park hospitals, and the list goes on. It will be very beneficial to the delivery of improved health services across the State. On the weekend I found it rather strange that the Leader of the Opposition thought he would be tricky and hold a press conference to say how the Opposition would spend the proceeds from the sale of AlintaGas. What a nerve! What hypocrisy for members opposite to oppose at every opportunity the sale of AlintaGas, and when it is successfully completed to then jump in front of a television camera and say, “This is how we would spend the money.” How can the Leader of the Opposition sleep at night when he uses those sorts of tactics? The Labor Party is trying to say that this Government has cut expenditure on health. This Government has averaged an increase in expenditure of 6 per cent a year; during the last three years of the Labor Government it was 3.8 per cent. This Government has nearly doubled expenditure on health compared with what Labor was doing. We are going into an election - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
On the weekend I found it rather strange that the Leader of the Opposition thought he would be tricky and hold a press conference to say how the Opposition would spend the proceeds from the sale of AlintaGas. What a nerve! What hypocrisy for members opposite to oppose at every opportunity the sale of AlintaGas, and when it is successfully completed to then jump in front of a television camera and say, “This is how we would spend the money.” How can the Leader of the Opposition sleep at night when he uses those sorts of tactics? The Labor Party is trying to say that this Government has cut expenditure on health. This Government has averaged an increase in expenditure of 6 per cent a year; during the last three years of the Labor Government it was 3.8 per cent. This Government has nearly doubled expenditure on health compared with what Labor was doing. We are going into an election - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: When we go into the election campaign one thing will be certain: The Labor Party will go into it with three fewer members than when it started this sitting of Parliament. Why would three members leave the Labor Party when those opposite are meant to have this great chance of success? Those three members all say they left for similar reasons - a totally corrupt preselection process. Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr Ripper: What are you doing about the forgery in the Liberal Party? Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: A complaint was made. That person had to go before two preselection committees, a disciplinary hearing, face up to Queen’s Counsels and the like, and go through the full process. Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Ms MacTiernan: Two members in this House were members of the Liberal Party but they are not now. Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: I will get to that. The point I want to make is that last week in Parliament - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: Last week in Parliament the Leader of the Opposition said, “How dare you say that about the great Australian Labor Party?” The “great Australian Labor Party” is a myth; it is a shell. Those opposite will go into this election with their 60-40 rule in place - 60 per cent union domination of power. It is a simple deal. All they have to do is get the unions on side - that guarantees the majority of the vote - and then they go around and sign up their mates, pay for their membership and put them into branches so they can get across the line. The Leader of the Opposition knows that. It is standard practice in the Labor Party. Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr Pendal: And the Liberal Party! Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
Mr COURT: No. The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The point I want to make is that the Leader of the Opposition promised he would bring democracy into his party. He has not achieved that. Those on the opposition front bench have been up to all sorts of tricks and rorted to ensure they are preselected. That is how it works. It is against the constitution of the Labor Party. It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
It is an act of hypocrisy to say in public how the Labor Party would spend the money when it opposed the privatisation process the whole way through. The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
The SPEAKER: I remind members that, when questions such as that are asked, I am allowing extra opportunities to interject because it is not a debate and some members do not get the opportunity to respond. However, we really had far too many members interjecting at the same time. If a “Dorothy Dixer” such as that were asked, and the question of its relevance raised, it would be hard for me to say it was relevant.
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