❓ Premier Cook defends the Prime Minister's visits to WA, highlighting his understanding of the state's needs and contributions to key projects like Westport and critical minerals development. He avoids directly addressing the detainee issue raised by the opposition.
AnsweredQoN 276Legislative Assembly
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PRIME MINISTER — VISIT
276. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Premier:
I refer to the latest prime
ministerial visit to Western Australia, which your colleagues have reportedly
labelled as tone-deaf and unhelpful. Did the Premier take this opportunity to
request the Prime Minister resolve the ongoing debacle surrounding the former
detainees who have been released, in order to keep Western Australians like Mrs
Ninette Simons of Girrawheen safe?
276. Mr R.S. LOVE to the Premier:
I refer to the latest prime
ministerial visit to Western Australia, which your colleagues have reportedly
labelled as tone-deaf and unhelpful. Did the Premier take this opportunity to
request the Prime Minister resolve the ongoing debacle surrounding the former
detainees who have been released, in order to keep Western Australians like Mrs
Ninette Simons of Girrawheen safe?
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First of all, I disagree with the
member's characterisation of the Labor Party's view of the
Prime Minister coming to this state. No-one
gets Western Australia like Anthony Albanese. In the two years he has been our
Prime Minister , he has come to Western Australia 20 times. That is more
than the last four Prime Ministers combined. We are delighted to welcome the Prime Minister to Western Australia, where he
spoke to a jam-packed room of businesspeople who were keen to hear from
the Prime Minister about his plans for Australia and Western Australia.
Ms R. Saffioti : The Leader of
the Liberal Party was there.
Mr R.H. COOK : There was so much interest that even the
Leader of the Liberal Party was there and, like us, she heard the important
announcements he made about ongoing work with Geoscience Australia to assist
our resources industries make further discoveries, particularly around critical
minerals and rare earths, and also the government's generous contribution
towards Westport, which it acknowledged was a transformative piece of economic
export infrastructure. It wanted to be part of that important project to
continue to ensure that Western Australia is the engine room of the nation's
economy.
The Prime Minister continues to come
to Western Australia and continues to understand. His vision for the country
completely complements ours—that is, an economy that is diversified and
seizes the opportunities of the energy transformation so that we can continue
to assist the world decarbonise. We share that vision. He wants to bring
manufacturing back to Australia. We are very proud of our record of
manufacturing our own railcars for both public transport and iron ore. We are
making sure that advanced manufacturing comes to WA and that we can be part of
the critical minerals and battery energy manufacturing supply chain.
This is a Prime Minister who gets Western
Australia. This Prime Minister understands what he needs to do to continue to
support Western Australia and to create great Western Australian jobs and make
sure that we remain the engine room of the nation's capital.
member's characterisation of the Labor Party's view of the
Prime Minister coming to this state. No-one
gets Western Australia like Anthony Albanese. In the two years he has been our
Prime Minister , he has come to Western Australia 20 times. That is more
than the last four Prime Ministers combined. We are delighted to welcome the Prime Minister to Western Australia, where he
spoke to a jam-packed room of businesspeople who were keen to hear from
the Prime Minister about his plans for Australia and Western Australia.
Ms R. Saffioti : The Leader of
the Liberal Party was there.
Mr R.H. COOK : There was so much interest that even the
Leader of the Liberal Party was there and, like us, she heard the important
announcements he made about ongoing work with Geoscience Australia to assist
our resources industries make further discoveries, particularly around critical
minerals and rare earths, and also the government's generous contribution
towards Westport, which it acknowledged was a transformative piece of economic
export infrastructure. It wanted to be part of that important project to
continue to ensure that Western Australia is the engine room of the nation's
economy.
The Prime Minister continues to come
to Western Australia and continues to understand. His vision for the country
completely complements ours—that is, an economy that is diversified and
seizes the opportunities of the energy transformation so that we can continue
to assist the world decarbonise. We share that vision. He wants to bring
manufacturing back to Australia. We are very proud of our record of
manufacturing our own railcars for both public transport and iron ore. We are
making sure that advanced manufacturing comes to WA and that we can be part of
the critical minerals and battery energy manufacturing supply chain.
This is a Prime Minister who gets Western
Australia. This Prime Minister understands what he needs to do to continue to
support Western Australia and to create great Western Australian jobs and make
sure that we remain the engine room of the nation's capital.
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