❓ WA Minister criticises the federal government's AusLink funding allocation to WA, arguing it's disproportionately low compared to the state's contribution to the national economy and infrastructure needs. She contrasts this with a commitment from the Latham opposition.
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Concerning the State’s announcement on funding for the Peel deviation and the Kwinana Freeway extension and the federal Government’s $20 million shortfall in funding, will the minister advise the House about other funding provided by the federal Government under AusLink? Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question as I know he is an enthusiastic advocate of the Peel deviation and the Perth to Bunbury highway. I was in Bunbury this morning and I must inform the member for Bunbury that people there are ecstatic. They are very pleased at the commitment by the State Government. I pledged to the people of Bunbury that the Government is working full bore to have all the heritage and environmental clearances under way so we can start turning the dirt at the beginning of 2007. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question as I know he is an enthusiastic advocate of the Peel deviation and the Perth to Bunbury highway. I was in Bunbury this morning and I must inform the member for Bunbury that people there are ecstatic. They are very pleased at the commitment by the State Government. I pledged to the people of Bunbury that the Government is working full bore to have all the heritage and environmental clearances under way so we can start turning the dirt at the beginning of 2007. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
I thank the member for the question as I know he is an enthusiastic advocate of the Peel deviation and the Perth to Bunbury highway. I was in Bunbury this morning and I must inform the member for Bunbury that people there are ecstatic. They are very pleased at the commitment by the State Government. I pledged to the people of Bunbury that the Government is working full bore to have all the heritage and environmental clearances under way so we can start turning the dirt at the beginning of 2007. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question as I know he is an enthusiastic advocate of the Peel deviation and the Perth to Bunbury highway. I was in Bunbury this morning and I must inform the member for Bunbury that people there are ecstatic. They are very pleased at the commitment by the State Government. I pledged to the people of Bunbury that the Government is working full bore to have all the heritage and environmental clearances under way so we can start turning the dirt at the beginning of 2007. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
I thank the member for the question as I know he is an enthusiastic advocate of the Peel deviation and the Perth to Bunbury highway. I was in Bunbury this morning and I must inform the member for Bunbury that people there are ecstatic. They are very pleased at the commitment by the State Government. I pledged to the people of Bunbury that the Government is working full bore to have all the heritage and environmental clearances under way so we can start turning the dirt at the beginning of 2007. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
The SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
Ms A.J. MacTIERNAN: The question was whether we were getting a fair share of the nation’s infrastructure money. Out of the $6.2 billion that the Australian Government has allocated for transport infrastructure, Western Australia is getting just 6.9 per cent, but it occupies a third of the continent. We have 25 per cent of the national highway, we have 30 per cent by value of the nation’s exports and we have 10 per cent of the nation’s population. On what basis is the Australian Government giving us just 6.9 per cent? We thought that was bad enough, but today John Anderson issued another media release. This time he is putting an extra $410 million into national and state roads - on top of the $6.2 billion. Out of that $410 million we get $20 million - less than six per cent! The Latham team has led the way again. Two weeks ago it made a commitment to fund $170 million - the full 50 per cent - for the Perth-Bunbury highway. Fortunately, Mr Latham again leads the way and John Howard is playing catch up. The facts speak for themselves. We received 6.9 per cent of AusLink funding and now a mere $20 million out of a $410 million package offered around Australia. We do not count with the Howard Government. The only way forward for Western Australia to get a proper share of infrastructure funding is to have a Latham Government.
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