❓ The Minister for Planning and Infrastructure outlines three key issues she will raise at the Australian Transport Council meeting: WA's fair share of transport funding, the need for an Australian shipping industry due to security concerns, and the misuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes.
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Can the minister advise the house what issues she will be raising at this week’s Australian Transport Council meeting? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question. Unfortunately I will miss question time tomorrow, because I will be in Alice Springs at the Australian Transport Council meeting, fighting the good fight for Western Australia. I would like to think that members of the National Party could do something useful and get onto their colleague John Anderson, and tell him it is about time he gave a proper focus to Western Australia. I will be taking up three issues. First of all, it is time that Western Australia got its fair share of the national transport pie. As I have told this place over and over again, Western Australia gets only 6.9 per cent of the national transport fund. On any analysis, that is not fair. In the area of rail funding, Western Australia gets only 0.8 per cent, not eight per cent. We have applied for much more than that. The second issue I will be raising is the need for an Australian shipping industry. The federal government is actually hostile to the notion of an Australian shipping industry. The federal National Party minister is on record as saying that he does not want to have a shipping industry in Australia. There are real security concerns. Recently the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed out that in 2002 alone, 115 000 foreign seamen came into ports in Australia. Since the Howard government has come into power and has been handing out continuous vessel and single vessel permits like confetti, there has been an exponential increase in the number of foreign ships calling into Australian and Western Australian ports. It is about time we had an Australian shipping industry and dealt with these very real security concerns. Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. Unfortunately I will miss question time tomorrow, because I will be in Alice Springs at the Australian Transport Council meeting, fighting the good fight for Western Australia. I would like to think that members of the National Party could do something useful and get onto their colleague John Anderson, and tell him it is about time he gave a proper focus to Western Australia. I will be taking up three issues. First of all, it is time that Western Australia got its fair share of the national transport pie. As I have told this place over and over again, Western Australia gets only 6.9 per cent of the national transport fund. On any analysis, that is not fair. In the area of rail funding, Western Australia gets only 0.8 per cent, not eight per cent. We have applied for much more than that. The second issue I will be raising is the need for an Australian shipping industry. The federal government is actually hostile to the notion of an Australian shipping industry. The federal National Party minister is on record as saying that he does not want to have a shipping industry in Australia. There are real security concerns. Recently the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed out that in 2002 alone, 115 000 foreign seamen came into ports in Australia. Since the Howard government has come into power and has been handing out continuous vessel and single vessel permits like confetti, there has been an exponential increase in the number of foreign ships calling into Australian and Western Australian ports. It is about time we had an Australian shipping industry and dealt with these very real security concerns. Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
I thank the member for the question. Unfortunately I will miss question time tomorrow, because I will be in Alice Springs at the Australian Transport Council meeting, fighting the good fight for Western Australia. I would like to think that members of the National Party could do something useful and get onto their colleague John Anderson, and tell him it is about time he gave a proper focus to Western Australia. I will be taking up three issues. First of all, it is time that Western Australia got its fair share of the national transport pie. As I have told this place over and over again, Western Australia gets only 6.9 per cent of the national transport fund. On any analysis, that is not fair. In the area of rail funding, Western Australia gets only 0.8 per cent, not eight per cent. We have applied for much more than that. The second issue I will be raising is the need for an Australian shipping industry. The federal government is actually hostile to the notion of an Australian shipping industry. The federal National Party minister is on record as saying that he does not want to have a shipping industry in Australia. There are real security concerns. Recently the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed out that in 2002 alone, 115 000 foreign seamen came into ports in Australia. Since the Howard government has come into power and has been handing out continuous vessel and single vessel permits like confetti, there has been an exponential increase in the number of foreign ships calling into Australian and Western Australian ports. It is about time we had an Australian shipping industry and dealt with these very real security concerns. Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
The second issue I will be raising is the need for an Australian shipping industry. The federal government is actually hostile to the notion of an Australian shipping industry. The federal National Party minister is on record as saying that he does not want to have a shipping industry in Australia. There are real security concerns. Recently the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed out that in 2002 alone, 115 000 foreign seamen came into ports in Australia. Since the Howard government has come into power and has been handing out continuous vessel and single vessel permits like confetti, there has been an exponential increase in the number of foreign ships calling into Australian and Western Australian ports. It is about time we had an Australian shipping industry and dealt with these very real security concerns. Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. Unfortunately I will miss question time tomorrow, because I will be in Alice Springs at the Australian Transport Council meeting, fighting the good fight for Western Australia. I would like to think that members of the National Party could do something useful and get onto their colleague John Anderson, and tell him it is about time he gave a proper focus to Western Australia. I will be taking up three issues. First of all, it is time that Western Australia got its fair share of the national transport pie. As I have told this place over and over again, Western Australia gets only 6.9 per cent of the national transport fund. On any analysis, that is not fair. In the area of rail funding, Western Australia gets only 0.8 per cent, not eight per cent. We have applied for much more than that. The second issue I will be raising is the need for an Australian shipping industry. The federal government is actually hostile to the notion of an Australian shipping industry. The federal National Party minister is on record as saying that he does not want to have a shipping industry in Australia. There are real security concerns. Recently the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed out that in 2002 alone, 115 000 foreign seamen came into ports in Australia. Since the Howard government has come into power and has been handing out continuous vessel and single vessel permits like confetti, there has been an exponential increase in the number of foreign ships calling into Australian and Western Australian ports. It is about time we had an Australian shipping industry and dealt with these very real security concerns. Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
I thank the member for the question. Unfortunately I will miss question time tomorrow, because I will be in Alice Springs at the Australian Transport Council meeting, fighting the good fight for Western Australia. I would like to think that members of the National Party could do something useful and get onto their colleague John Anderson, and tell him it is about time he gave a proper focus to Western Australia. I will be taking up three issues. First of all, it is time that Western Australia got its fair share of the national transport pie. As I have told this place over and over again, Western Australia gets only 6.9 per cent of the national transport fund. On any analysis, that is not fair. In the area of rail funding, Western Australia gets only 0.8 per cent, not eight per cent. We have applied for much more than that. The second issue I will be raising is the need for an Australian shipping industry. The federal government is actually hostile to the notion of an Australian shipping industry. The federal National Party minister is on record as saying that he does not want to have a shipping industry in Australia. There are real security concerns. Recently the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed out that in 2002 alone, 115 000 foreign seamen came into ports in Australia. Since the Howard government has come into power and has been handing out continuous vessel and single vessel permits like confetti, there has been an exponential increase in the number of foreign ships calling into Australian and Western Australian ports. It is about time we had an Australian shipping industry and dealt with these very real security concerns. Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
The second issue I will be raising is the need for an Australian shipping industry. The federal government is actually hostile to the notion of an Australian shipping industry. The federal National Party minister is on record as saying that he does not want to have a shipping industry in Australia. There are real security concerns. Recently the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed out that in 2002 alone, 115 000 foreign seamen came into ports in Australia. Since the Howard government has come into power and has been handing out continuous vessel and single vessel permits like confetti, there has been an exponential increase in the number of foreign ships calling into Australian and Western Australian ports. It is about time we had an Australian shipping industry and dealt with these very real security concerns. Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Of course the final point that I will be raising - we have put a paper to the ATC on this issue - is the misuse and abuse of airport land for non-aviation purposes. The idea that a brickworks has anything to do with aviation and can be constructed on commonwealth land, regardless of environmental and planning issues, in my view is a breach of any good planning. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
The SPEAKER : Order! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Secondly, it goes well beyond the commonwealth’s constitutional powers. Those are the three issues we will be taking up. We will be fighting for Western Australia.
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