❓ Dr. Honey accuses the Premier's government of abandoning community-based planning to appease donors. The Premier rejects the accusation, citing local council opposition to a children's hospice as justification for state intervention.
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PLANNING
REFORM
97. Dr D.J. HONEY to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why has the Premier's
government abandoned an orderly community-based planning process simply to
satisfy the demands of its major fundraising donors?
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please! You both asked and
answered your own question then. You have to just ask a question and not give
your own conclusion.
REFORM
97. Dr D.J. HONEY to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why has the Premier's
government abandoned an orderly community-based planning process simply to
satisfy the demands of its major fundraising donors?
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please! You both asked and
answered your own question then. You have to just ask a question and not give
your own conclusion.
AnswerView source ↗
Again I reject the premise of the question. It is a ridiculous
and offensive suggestion by someone who was recently supplanted. He had a 50 per
cent chance of being the Leader of the Liberal Party and he lost it.
Ms R. Saffioti interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Yes. That is the member's
situation. Planning powers are delegated by state legislation to local
governments. They are state powers. Local governments are the creation of the
state, just so that the member knows. That
is the reality. I will give the member this example. It has been raised a few
times, but I think it is worth noting.
We support having a children's hospice in the western suburbs. We are
helping to fund it. We support former Senator Ian Campbell all the way
with what he is trying to achieve. Do members know who opposed it? It was the
City of Nedlands. The council opposed it. We are trying to set up a hospice for
little kids who are dying of cancer, and who goes and opposes it? The local
council. Does the member need a better example than that of why sometimes we
need to have the capacity to get things done? That was so offensive and so
horrible that that council would do that. It
complained about the noise of little kids with cancer playing. For goodness
sake! That is what we are trying to overcome here. The Liberal Party can
support those naysayers all they like. I know which side I am on.
and offensive suggestion by someone who was recently supplanted. He had a 50 per
cent chance of being the Leader of the Liberal Party and he lost it.
Ms R. Saffioti interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Yes. That is the member's
situation. Planning powers are delegated by state legislation to local
governments. They are state powers. Local governments are the creation of the
state, just so that the member knows. That
is the reality. I will give the member this example. It has been raised a few
times, but I think it is worth noting.
We support having a children's hospice in the western suburbs. We are
helping to fund it. We support former Senator Ian Campbell all the way
with what he is trying to achieve. Do members know who opposed it? It was the
City of Nedlands. The council opposed it. We are trying to set up a hospice for
little kids who are dying of cancer, and who goes and opposes it? The local
council. Does the member need a better example than that of why sometimes we
need to have the capacity to get things done? That was so offensive and so
horrible that that council would do that. It
complained about the noise of little kids with cancer playing. For goodness
sake! That is what we are trying to overcome here. The Liberal Party can
support those naysayers all they like. I know which side I am on.
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