❓ Treasurer Ripper accuses the opposition, particularly the member for Vasse, of supporting a 'less with less' policy that threatens ongoing funding for vital state programs, drawing parallels to former Governor Weld's budget approach.
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STATE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
Will the Treasurer inform the house of the potential future threat to ongoing state government programs? Mr E.S. RIPPER
Will the Treasurer inform the house of the potential future threat to ongoing state government programs? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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Until I saw the member for Leschenault missing from the opposition’s front bench, I did not realise just how seriously the opposition was taking its new less with less policy! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: Until I saw the member for Leschenault missing from the opposition’s front bench, I did not realise just how seriously the opposition was taking its new less with less policy! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Until I saw the member for Leschenault missing from the opposition’s front bench, I did not realise just how seriously the opposition was taking its new less with less policy! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: Until I saw the member for Leschenault missing from the opposition’s front bench, I did not realise just how seriously the opposition was taking its new less with less policy! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Until I saw the member for Leschenault missing from the opposition’s front bench, I did not realise just how seriously the opposition was taking its new less with less policy! Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : There is a potential future threat to ongoing government programs; it is the member for Vasse and his explicit support for the extreme less with less doctrine of former Republican Governor William Weld. In 1990 former Governor Weld declared that budgets should start each year from scratch. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The less with less doctrine is a real threat to regional areas. I want to ask the regional members of the opposition whether they support less with less. For example, does the member for Kalgoorlie support the less with less approach of the member for Vasse? Does the member for Kalgoorlie support it? There is no support forthcoming from the member for Kalgoorlie for the member for Vasse’s new approach, Mr Speaker. The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
The approach is based, as Governor Weld implemented, on starting budgets each year from scratch. Governor Weld said that governments should assume that no program is necessary and no line item in the budget is necessary. Under this scenario, vital programs that need to continue for longer than 12 months would be under serious threat. That is the extreme agenda that the member for Vasse now wants to inflict on Western Australia. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : Ongoing funding for literacy and numeracy programs would be under threat; ongoing funding to address the skills shortage would be under threat; ongoing funding for the regional investment fund - I say to the member for Kalgoorlie - would be under threat; and even ongoing funding to deal with too much red tape would be under threat. Surely the member for Vasse would not be in favour of threatening ongoing funding for cancer services. There are cane toads to the north, starlings to the south and Liberals threatening all services right across Western Australia, because the member for Vasse explicitly and unconditionally has backed former Governor Weld’s slash and burn approach to government programs. He told state Parliament in May that I should adopt the less with less approach of Governor Weld. I assure Parliament and I assure my colleagues that I will not adopt Governor Weld’s approach. I will not adopt the less with less approach because I want to protect the services that people in regional Western Australia and right across the state need - member for Kalgoorlie - in particular the services enjoyed by the vulnerable. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Vasse has sharpened the differences between the opposition and the Carpenter government. At the next election the electors of Western Australia will have a real choice. They can vote for a Labor government that defends, protects and expands services where appropriate, or they can vote for the Liberals, who have a new less with less philosophy and a slash and burn approach with no guarantee of ongoing funding for any service. That is the approach, Mr Speaker.
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