❓ The Premier admits the government failed to deliver the Mt Barker Primary School project on time, then deflects blame to the previous government's lack of investment in the area.
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MT BARKER PRIMARY SCHOOL
I have a supplementary question. Does the Premier agree that he and his government have broken their commitment to the Mt Barker community? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I have a supplementary question. Does the Premier agree that he and his government have broken their commitment to the Mt Barker community? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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If the commitment was that we would have the project done by this year, then we have been unable to deliver on that. I will ask the member a rhetorical question: where was the commitment from the previous government, the parties of which the member represents? They did nothing. They ignored Mt Barker; they ignored Denmark; they ignored Walpole; they ignored all those areas. The member has a bit of a hide to run the sorts of campaigns that he runs knowing, as he does because he was in the education system, the truth about the lack of investment in education infrastructure prior to the election of the Gallop government.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: If the commitment was that we would have the project done by this year, then we have been unable to deliver on that. I will ask the member a rhetorical question: where was the commitment from the previous government, the parties of which the member represents? They did nothing. They ignored Mt Barker; they ignored Denmark; they ignored Walpole; they ignored all those areas. The member has a bit of a hide to run the sorts of campaigns that he runs knowing, as he does because he was in the education system, the truth about the lack of investment in education infrastructure prior to the election of the Gallop government.
If the commitment was that we would have the project done by this year, then we have been unable to deliver on that. I will ask the member a rhetorical question: where was the commitment from the previous government, the parties of which the member represents? They did nothing. They ignored Mt Barker; they ignored Denmark; they ignored Walpole; they ignored all those areas. The member has a bit of a hide to run the sorts of campaigns that he runs knowing, as he does because he was in the education system, the truth about the lack of investment in education infrastructure prior to the election of the Gallop government.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: If the commitment was that we would have the project done by this year, then we have been unable to deliver on that. I will ask the member a rhetorical question: where was the commitment from the previous government, the parties of which the member represents? They did nothing. They ignored Mt Barker; they ignored Denmark; they ignored Walpole; they ignored all those areas. The member has a bit of a hide to run the sorts of campaigns that he runs knowing, as he does because he was in the education system, the truth about the lack of investment in education infrastructure prior to the election of the Gallop government.
If the commitment was that we would have the project done by this year, then we have been unable to deliver on that. I will ask the member a rhetorical question: where was the commitment from the previous government, the parties of which the member represents? They did nothing. They ignored Mt Barker; they ignored Denmark; they ignored Walpole; they ignored all those areas. The member has a bit of a hide to run the sorts of campaigns that he runs knowing, as he does because he was in the education system, the truth about the lack of investment in education infrastructure prior to the election of the Gallop government.
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