❓ Opposition asks the Premier to table the LNG Jobs Task Force report and questions the timing of gas policy changes. The Premier deflects, questioning the Opposition's policy development and avoiding a commitment to table the report.
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DOMESTIC GAS POLICY —
LNG JOBS TASK FORCE REPORT
574. Mrs L.M. HARVEY to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Will the premier undertake to table in this house the recommendations of the
LNG jobs task force report, which, according to Tenders WA, cost $137 000 of
taxpayer money; and why did the Premier change the domestic gas reservation
policy without having an understanding of or having read that report?
LNG JOBS TASK FORCE REPORT
574. Mrs L.M. HARVEY to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Will the premier undertake to table in this house the recommendations of the
LNG jobs task force report, which, according to Tenders WA, cost $137 000 of
taxpayer money; and why did the Premier change the domestic gas reservation
policy without having an understanding of or having read that report?
AnswerView source ↗
I cannot commit to tabling any such
report without first knowing the details of the report and whether there are
any reasons why it should not be tabled, such as commercial-in-confidence
reasons or otherwise. I want to be clear that our policy is to support domestic
gas. Some people out there say that domestic gas means domestic gas for New
South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. I was advised that the
former Premier argued that yesterday. Our
view is that the Western Australian allocation of domestic gas is domestic gas
for Western Australia. It is not domestic gas for Victoria, New South
Wales or Queensland. Over there, they largely sign up contracts just to export,
and domestic gas comes second. Here, since Alan Carpenter and the Labor
government put in place the domestic gas reservation policy in 2006, we have
ensured that there is gas for domestic supply. I was in Parliament at the time and people objected to that policy,
including the then federal government. The federal minister, Ian Macfarlane,
was very vicious about it. These days, it is widely accepted as a good move
that ensures that we will have domestic gas supplies for the future.
Mrs L.M. Harvey interjected.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the
Opposition, you have had two goes.
Mr
M. McGOWAN : The Leader of the
Opposition has now been office for three and a half years. She has no policies.
Mrs L.M. Harvey interjected.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the
Opposition, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr M. McGOWAN : If I go to the
Liberal Party website, I can see that it is a policy-free zone. The Leader of
the Opposition said that this year was going
to be the year of policy development and release. Where are they? She comes in here and asks me about an obscure report. The government get hundreds of
reports on all sorts of issues virtually every month. After three and a half
years as opposition leader, she may have learnt that she might want to give a bit
of notice if she is going to ask a question seeking that level of detail.
Mrs L.M. Harvey interjected.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the
Opposition, you had two goes and I called you to order once. If you want to go
home early, keep it up.
report without first knowing the details of the report and whether there are
any reasons why it should not be tabled, such as commercial-in-confidence
reasons or otherwise. I want to be clear that our policy is to support domestic
gas. Some people out there say that domestic gas means domestic gas for New
South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. I was advised that the
former Premier argued that yesterday. Our
view is that the Western Australian allocation of domestic gas is domestic gas
for Western Australia. It is not domestic gas for Victoria, New South
Wales or Queensland. Over there, they largely sign up contracts just to export,
and domestic gas comes second. Here, since Alan Carpenter and the Labor
government put in place the domestic gas reservation policy in 2006, we have
ensured that there is gas for domestic supply. I was in Parliament at the time and people objected to that policy,
including the then federal government. The federal minister, Ian Macfarlane,
was very vicious about it. These days, it is widely accepted as a good move
that ensures that we will have domestic gas supplies for the future.
Mrs L.M. Harvey interjected.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the
Opposition, you have had two goes.
Mr
M. McGOWAN : The Leader of the
Opposition has now been office for three and a half years. She has no policies.
Mrs L.M. Harvey interjected.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the
Opposition, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr M. McGOWAN : If I go to the
Liberal Party website, I can see that it is a policy-free zone. The Leader of
the Opposition said that this year was going
to be the year of policy development and release. Where are they? She comes in here and asks me about an obscure report. The government get hundreds of
reports on all sorts of issues virtually every month. After three and a half
years as opposition leader, she may have learnt that she might want to give a bit
of notice if she is going to ask a question seeking that level of detail.
Mrs L.M. Harvey interjected.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the
Opposition, you had two goes and I called you to order once. If you want to go
home early, keep it up.
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