❓ Barnett questions Gallop about a potential conflict of interest regarding Ms. Wiese's past lobbying for poker machines, despite the government's policy against them. Barnett demands her removal from office or the roundtable.
AnsweredQoN 1343Legislative Assembly
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I ask a supplementary question. With regard to conflict of interest, is the Premier also aware that Ms Wiese was once a paid lobbyist seeking the introduction of poker machines into Western Australia? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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Whatever her former employment may have been with respect to that issue, I can assure this Parliament and the people of Western Australia that the current Government has a very clear policy: there will be no poker machines in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: She needs to be either removed from your office or removed from the business of the roundtable; one or the other. The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Whatever her former employment may have been with respect to that issue, I can assure this Parliament and the people of Western Australia that the current Government has a very clear policy: there will be no poker machines in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: She needs to be either removed from your office or removed from the business of the roundtable; one or the other. The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
Whatever her former employment may have been with respect to that issue, I can assure this Parliament and the people of Western Australia that the current Government has a very clear policy: there will be no poker machines in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: She needs to be either removed from your office or removed from the business of the roundtable; one or the other. The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
Mr C.J. Barnett: She needs to be either removed from your office or removed from the business of the roundtable; one or the other. The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Whatever her former employment may have been with respect to that issue, I can assure this Parliament and the people of Western Australia that the current Government has a very clear policy: there will be no poker machines in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: She needs to be either removed from your office or removed from the business of the roundtable; one or the other. The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
Whatever her former employment may have been with respect to that issue, I can assure this Parliament and the people of Western Australia that the current Government has a very clear policy: there will be no poker machines in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett: She needs to be either removed from your office or removed from the business of the roundtable; one or the other. The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
Mr C.J. Barnett: She needs to be either removed from your office or removed from the business of the roundtable; one or the other. The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time.
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