❓ Debate over federal funding for Roe Highway project. The Minister accuses the opposition of a plot to divert funds, leading to potential traffic issues, while highlighting government progress on the project and a shift in opinion from the Mayor of Melville.
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The minister knows that members opposite - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time and suggest that if he wished - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time and suggest that if he wished - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time and suggest that if he wished - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time and suggest that if he wished - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time and suggest that if he wished - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time and suggest that if he wished to ask a supplementary question, he should have got to his feet quicker. Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Mr A.D. McRAE: Some members opposite and, indeed, some of their less predictable federal counterparts have been lobbying the federal Government to remove $76 million from the federal-state road budget and the total amount of funds available to this State. Is the minister aware of any adverse public reaction to this foolish and dangerous strategy? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
I thank the member for Riverton for the question and I also take this opportunity to thank him for the constructive role he has played in his community. He is chairing the local impacts committee to ensure that we get a world-class solution to the endemic traffic problems left unattended during the eight years of the previous Government. This Government is attempting to address those problems. A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
A clever little plan was hatched by the member for Murdoch and others. Interestingly, the member’s name appears on the City of Melville’s web site as the contact person for the save our suburbs campaign. The City of Melville and the member for Murdoch came up with a clever little scheme to ask Daryl Williams and Wilson Tuckey to go to the federal Government and take $76 million from the federal funding for the construction of Roe Highway. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: This is an important issue and one that the community deserves to understand. In the spirit of bipartisanship I tried to warn them that there were perils associated with this program. The previous Government sat around for eight years and made promises. One reason we do not have a conservative member for Roleystone is that for eight years the previous Government promised the people of Beckenham that an extension would be built to the Roe Highway, but it was not built. We have moved quickly. Roe Highway stage 4 is being built. Roe Highway stage 5 is being built and is almost complete. Roe Highway stage 6 is under contract. This great plan that was hatched by the member for Murdoch and the City of Melville, and that enlisted that A-grade player Wilson Tuckey to come in as the hooker to deliver it, had the consequence that because those three stages are under construction, only stage 7 could be cut. The consequence would obviously be that Roe Highway would hit South Street and would suddenly have nowhere to go but through Melville - right through the seats of the member for Murdoch and the federal member for Tangney. We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
We now find that we have a new convert, the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mayor Mair. An article headed “Lib threat to cut road funds ‘a disaster’: mayor” quotes the mayor - a very sensible woman - as saying - . . . any failure to build Roe Highway stage seven would be a “major disaster” for the city. The mayor talks about the little plot that the Liberals had hatched and says - “It sounded like a great idea at the time but the implications are coming home and we need to be aware that the outcome could be that we don’t get Roe seven,” . . . Dr G.I. Gallop: The moral of that story is beware of Liberals bearing gifts! Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: Beware of the forensic capacity of the Liberal Party! Beware of the capacity of the Liberal Party to even be able to identify its own self-interest! I am pleased to report that, last night, the Fremantle eastern bypass went to the City of Fremantle for determination, and the City of Fremantle voted 10 to three to endorse its deletion. I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
I make one final comment about the position of Mayor Mair of Melville. Mayor Mair has quite rightly told the Opposition to forget about the Fremantle eastern bypass and focus on the main game; that is, the implementation of our six-part strategy to provide a proper and sustainable transport network through the southern suburbs, including the planning for a new outer harbour for the container overflow services.
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