❓ The WA parliamentary question concerns funding and timelines for road upgrades and bypasses in regional WA to improve safety and reduce heavy truck traffic through towns. The Minister's response provides updates on several projects, but lacks specific commitments for some.
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Following recent road tragedies involving motorists and large trucks on the South Western Highway and the growing community concerns about the safety of many haulage roads in Western Australia, I ask - (1) When will the minister provide the funds to build the Toodyay bypass so that 6 000 heavy trucks a year will not be forced to use the town’s main streets? (2) When will the government fund the Mt Barker-Northam bypass to keep log trucks and woodchip trucks out of the town centre? (3) When will the government substantially upgrade the dangerous sections of Muir Highway? (4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(1) When will the minister provide the funds to build the Toodyay bypass so that 6 000 heavy trucks a year will not be forced to use the town’s main streets? (2) When will the government fund the Mt Barker-Northam bypass to keep log trucks and woodchip trucks out of the town centre? (3) When will the government substantially upgrade the dangerous sections of Muir Highway? (4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(2) When will the government fund the Mt Barker-Northam bypass to keep log trucks and woodchip trucks out of the town centre? (3) When will the government substantially upgrade the dangerous sections of Muir Highway? (4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(3) When will the government substantially upgrade the dangerous sections of Muir Highway? (4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(1) When will the minister provide the funds to build the Toodyay bypass so that 6 000 heavy trucks a year will not be forced to use the town’s main streets? (2) When will the government fund the Mt Barker-Northam bypass to keep log trucks and woodchip trucks out of the town centre? (3) When will the government substantially upgrade the dangerous sections of Muir Highway? (4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(2) When will the government fund the Mt Barker-Northam bypass to keep log trucks and woodchip trucks out of the town centre? (3) When will the government substantially upgrade the dangerous sections of Muir Highway? (4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(3) When will the government substantially upgrade the dangerous sections of Muir Highway? (4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(4) When will the government upgrade the Corrigin-Hyden section of road that is described as a 65 kilometre black spot? (5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(5) When will the government fully fund the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal road so that tourism and light traffic can avoid big trucks on Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
I thank the member for the question. I was happy to provide him with a copy of the question he had given me. (1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
(1)-(5) We are not sure what the specific road tragedy was that happened last week on the South Western Highway. We have not been able to find any details of that. I am more than happy to report on the various road projects. If the member for Greenough had asked the member for Stirling about the Mt Barker-Northam bypass, he would have found that the government originally had planned the construction of the bypass for 2007, but, at the request of the Shire of Plantagenet, we have brought that project forward by a year. Work is currently being undertaken on it and we expect it to be ready for construction at the beginning of November 2006. The government has been putting money into Muir Highway. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We need a moat between the member and the government because the poison seeps over here. We would like it to remain on the other side. I think it is an occupational safety and health matter! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
The SPEAKER : Order! Interjections between members none of whom is even on his or her feet is even more damaging to the flow of question time than is interjecting on the member who is on his or her feet. It is completely out of order to speak at such a level that it interferes with the answering of a question. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thank you, Mr Speaker. I will try not to be waylaid. The president of the Shire of Manjimup has made representations to us about Muir Highway. The former member for Stirling was involved in making those representations to us a few years ago. He made sure that the government had provided money in the budget for Muir Highway. In the past couple of years we have spent $2.3 million upgrading the highway. Another $6 million has been provided in the forward estimates to deal with some of the worst aspects of that road. Indeed, only this week I asked the Commissioner of Main Roads to see whether some of that funding could be moved further forward to get that work under way by this summer if possible. Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
Representations have been made to the government by the local authorities in the Corrigin-Hyden area. A member of the Premier’s office and I visited Dumbleyung, Lake Grace and the Treasurer’s home town of Nyabing where we inspected the roads. As a result, we have provided more than $8 million to upgrade that road. More moneys have been provided for in the budget. Another $4 million will be spent over the next couple of years, and we will improve on that amount if we can. We are making very substantial progress on that road. We have given a commitment to construct the $65 million Lancelin-Cervantes road over four years and it will begin in 2007.
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