❓ Question on the WA Liberal Party's stance on the WA economy following a change in federal government. Premier Carpenter accuses the Liberal Party of hypocrisy and criticises their past actions and current behaviour, alleging a conspiracy involving the media and external parties.
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WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY - LIBERAL PARTY VIEW
First, I acknowledge the presence in the gallery of the students and staff of St Norbert College in my electorate, and I welcome them to the house. Can the Premier please tell the house how the WA Liberal Party has finally woken from its slumber when it comes to recognising the needs of Western Australia’s strong economy? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
First, I acknowledge the presence in the gallery of the students and staff of St Norbert College in my electorate, and I welcome them to the house. Can the Premier please tell the house how the WA Liberal Party has finally woken from its slumber when it comes to recognising the needs of Western Australia’s strong economy? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for the question. I think the anticipated response is yes, I can tell the house how it has woken from its slumber, but actually it has not. It has just gone into another nightmare scenario rather than woken from its slumber. For months and years we have been demanding a better deal from our federal government, and we have been attacked by the Liberal Party in this Parliament for demanding a better deal from the federal government, saying, “It’s up to you. What’s wrong with you? Get it yourself; do it yourself.” Twenty-four hours - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Can the Premier please tell the house how the WA Liberal Party has finally woken from its slumber when it comes to recognising the needs of Western Australia’s strong economy? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. I think the anticipated response is yes, I can tell the house how it has woken from its slumber, but actually it has not. It has just gone into another nightmare scenario rather than woken from its slumber. For months and years we have been demanding a better deal from our federal government, and we have been attacked by the Liberal Party in this Parliament for demanding a better deal from the federal government, saying, “It’s up to you. What’s wrong with you? Get it yourself; do it yourself.” Twenty-four hours - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. I think the anticipated response is yes, I can tell the house how it has woken from its slumber, but actually it has not. It has just gone into another nightmare scenario rather than woken from its slumber. For months and years we have been demanding a better deal from our federal government, and we have been attacked by the Liberal Party in this Parliament for demanding a better deal from the federal government, saying, “It’s up to you. What’s wrong with you? Get it yourself; do it yourself.” Twenty-four hours - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
I thank the member for the question. I think the anticipated response is yes, I can tell the house how it has woken from its slumber, but actually it has not. It has just gone into another nightmare scenario rather than woken from its slumber. For months and years we have been demanding a better deal from our federal government, and we have been attacked by the Liberal Party in this Parliament for demanding a better deal from the federal government, saying, “It’s up to you. What’s wrong with you? Get it yourself; do it yourself.” Twenty-four hours - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Can the Premier please tell the house how the WA Liberal Party has finally woken from its slumber when it comes to recognising the needs of Western Australia’s strong economy? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. I think the anticipated response is yes, I can tell the house how it has woken from its slumber, but actually it has not. It has just gone into another nightmare scenario rather than woken from its slumber. For months and years we have been demanding a better deal from our federal government, and we have been attacked by the Liberal Party in this Parliament for demanding a better deal from the federal government, saying, “It’s up to you. What’s wrong with you? Get it yourself; do it yourself.” Twenty-four hours - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. I think the anticipated response is yes, I can tell the house how it has woken from its slumber, but actually it has not. It has just gone into another nightmare scenario rather than woken from its slumber. For months and years we have been demanding a better deal from our federal government, and we have been attacked by the Liberal Party in this Parliament for demanding a better deal from the federal government, saying, “It’s up to you. What’s wrong with you? Get it yourself; do it yourself.” Twenty-four hours - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
I thank the member for the question. I think the anticipated response is yes, I can tell the house how it has woken from its slumber, but actually it has not. It has just gone into another nightmare scenario rather than woken from its slumber. For months and years we have been demanding a better deal from our federal government, and we have been attacked by the Liberal Party in this Parliament for demanding a better deal from the federal government, saying, “It’s up to you. What’s wrong with you? Get it yourself; do it yourself.” Twenty-four hours - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I think the WA Liberal Party needs a tough man in there. The member for Darling Range should put his hand up. Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr J.H.D. Day : Where is your evidence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where is my evidence? The member for Darling Range is the evidence of it. He is sitting there; he is the living, breathing evidence of the problems that members on that side of the Parliament have. If they had the chance, the people who put members opposite in there would get a wheelbarrow and tip them all out and replace them with new people. For years, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party has been demanding that we stop asking for a better deal from the federal government and do it ourselves. Twenty-four hours after the - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Twenty-four hours, or maybe 36 hours, after the change of federal government, the Leader of the Opposition put out a statement saying, “Rudd must make WA a priority”. What about when John Howard was the leader? We have had it for 11 years, and in 24 hours, boom: “Geez, the world has changed. We’d better start attacking the federal government.” The bloke has not even sworn in his ministry yet. “Rudd must make WA a priority”. I agree; it should be a priority. We have said that all the time. One of the strange twists of reality that I have noticed that comes almost every day from the Parliamentary Liberal Party is that - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Please; the Leader of the Opposition cannot get himself thrown out today. He knows what that might mean. He should not get himself thrown out today. After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
After all that rhetoric for years, we get a changed situation. However, what do we have here? It is almost a daily occurrence that the state Parliamentary Liberal Party, the leader, and the deputy leader, Noel Crichton-Buswell, come into this place and make some outrageous allegation or assertion that is completely false. They did it to the police minister a couple of days ago. It was completely false. When we show that it is false, what is the response? We show what they have said is false, and their response is, “You’ve been caught out again.” The guys on that side should thank their lucky stars that they have The West Australian newspaper completely silent about what is going on in this state. A major conspiracy has been revealed involving parties outside the Parliament trying to use members of this Parliament, and the processes of the Parliament itself, to extract money from Rio Tinto. When it was revealed, I think The West Australian newspaper described the process by which it was revealed as an attack on democracy. What is laid out there is a major conspiracy upon which, in large part, the daily newspaper of this state is silent. Why? Because it is caught up in it. It is under the same influences as the people whom I am trying to get rid of. Its editor is, and Paul Murray, of whom the editor is an acolyte, is as well. Do members remember who Paul Murray’s two expert panellists were when he was a 6PR talkback radio host? Brian Burke and Noel Crichton-Browne! What have we got in this state? For God’s sake, what is happening in Western Australia when the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to stop the Premier cleaning up politics in this state? The daily newspaper, The West Australian , is totally silent on it - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : Members! Members! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : - in fact, the only response it has is to attack me - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Member for Roe and the member for Moore to order. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The West Australian has completely lost all sense of ethics. What is happening? We have gotten down to the absolute base human reaction in this chamber whereby if anybody dares challenge the Leader of the Opposition, he will punch them in the head! What sort of a face is being putting on the state for people to look at when that is happening? Western Australians are living in an amazingly good time; however, it is being portrayed, on a daily basis, as some sort of post-apocalyptic winter that we are all just surviving through. It is being portrayed as if we are all just clinging on for survival. A major scandal is going on in state politics and nothing is being done about it because the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is seeking to block it! What is wrong with those members? Every single one is sitting there, looking sadly down at the ground, trying to avoid eye contact. Shame on them all! What is the member for Alfred Cove doing sitting over there among them? Shame on the lot of them! All I hear the opposition say is that nothing can be done about it because the processes of Parliament do not allow it! This is the second last parliamentary sitting day of the year, and I ask members, over the summer, to reflect upon the parlous state of affairs the opposition has led politics into in this state. The opposition was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It was given the opportunity - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr R.F. Johnson : Why don’t you expel some of your members? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Where has the member been? Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr R.F. Johnson : I have been here all the time, my friend! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Are there any children in the chamber? Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I had better not say it. Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Unbelievable! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is amazing that, in Western Australia in 2007, the state Parliamentary Liberal Party is trying to block me from cleaning up politics in this state! Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Several members interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The opposition is about to replace its leader with a person who is up to his eyeballs in everything! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is dangling at the end of Noel Crichton-Browne’s thread! He has already shown himself to be completely deceitful. He sliced into the former leader. He is about to slice into the present Leader of the Opposition. Not one of those opposite trusts him! Will the member for South Perth do it? Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr J.E. McGrath : I trust him. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member trusts him! Is the member going to do it on his behalf? What a shocking thing! The member for South Perth, who had some integrity as a sports journalist, has found himself caught up in this imbroglio whereby he is prepared to help elevate a completely deceitful political opportunist into the position of state Liberal Party leader. He will do that at the critical moment at which the state government is trying to stamp out the corrupt influences that have bedevilled politics in this state for 20 years. The state government is trying to stamp it out in the face of no support whatsoever!
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