❓ Mr. Hyde questions the Minister about defunding the Ethnic Communities Council of WA (ECCWA), referencing a pre-election promise and potential repercussions. The Minister defends the decision, citing a shift to contestable funding based on performance indicators and transparency.
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ETHNIC COMMUNITIES COUNCIL OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
I refer to the Deputy Premier’s 2008 pre-election promise that the Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia would have a seat on the Liberal government’s advisory board and to the minister’s decision to now de-fund it. (1) Is the minister aware that, because of the government’s removal of this funding, ECCWA may now face closure? (2) Can the minister explain his decision to remove funding from one of the most effective ethnic advocacy bodies in Western Australia? (3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI
I refer to the Deputy Premier’s 2008 pre-election promise that the Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia would have a seat on the Liberal government’s advisory board and to the minister’s decision to now de-fund it. (1) Is the minister aware that, because of the government’s removal of this funding, ECCWA may now face closure? (2) Can the minister explain his decision to remove funding from one of the most effective ethnic advocacy bodies in Western Australia? (3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI
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I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(1) Is the minister aware that, because of the government’s removal of this funding, ECCWA may now face closure? (2) Can the minister explain his decision to remove funding from one of the most effective ethnic advocacy bodies in Western Australia? (3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(2) Can the minister explain his decision to remove funding from one of the most effective ethnic advocacy bodies in Western Australia? (3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(1) Is the minister aware that, because of the government’s removal of this funding, ECCWA may now face closure? (2) Can the minister explain his decision to remove funding from one of the most effective ethnic advocacy bodies in Western Australia? (3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(2) Can the minister explain his decision to remove funding from one of the most effective ethnic advocacy bodies in Western Australia? (3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(3) Did the minister’s decision to de-fund the ECC come after it exposed his government’s cuts to migrant, refugee, library and educational services; and, was the decision to cut funding a result of these exposures? (4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(4) Can the minister confirm that instead of ECCWA holding a position on the advisory board, a position has now gone to the Reverend Peter Abetz’s successor, a pastor from Queensland? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
I thank the member for his question. (1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
(1)–(4) Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! In trying to answer all the member’s questions, I say to the member for Perth that things have changed. Instead of the previous government handing out $100 000-odd every year to some organisation with little or no key performance indicators — Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : So you don’t think they did a good job, then? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : What I am telling the member is that in 2009 I made $200 000 of contestable funding available. I invited a whole range of people—everybody—to apply for that funding and to show me that they had the capacity to perform and deliver the outcomes of the strategic plan that we put together through community consultation. The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia applied, an independent body assessed all the applications, and it did not make the grade. Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : That is when the Premier stepped in with $100 000 and rolled you. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The ECC was then given $100 000 and it was made very clear that it was one-off funding from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and that is where it remained. The ECC has every right in 2012 when there is another $200 000, or whatever the funding might be at the time, to apply for part of that funding, just as every other organisation in Western Australia has the right. The ECC will again be judged by an independent body. This is about outcomes, transparency and accountability of public money. I as minister want to ensure that the expenditure of public money is transparent and accountable and that service delivery to communities is at its very best. Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : You made a promise about the boards, though. The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
The SPEAKER : A supplementary question? Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
Mr J.N. Hyde : Yes, Mr Speaker.
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