❓ Mr. Grylls asks about the Pilbara Regional Investment Blueprint's vision. The Minister highlights opportunities in tourism, Indigenous culture, agriculture, and renewable energy, praising the Pilbara Cities vision and a specific development project.
AnsweredQoN 848Legislative Assembly
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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT — PILBARA
848. Mr B.J. GRYLLS to the Minister for
Regional Development:
I thank the minister for joining me
in Karratha last week to speak at a Committee for Economic Development of
Australia State of the Regions conference and to launch the Pilbara Regional
Investment Blueprint. Can he please provide the house some details of the
blueprint's vision for the future of the Pilbara?
848. Mr B.J. GRYLLS to the Minister for
Regional Development:
I thank the minister for joining me
in Karratha last week to speak at a Committee for Economic Development of
Australia State of the Regions conference and to launch the Pilbara Regional
Investment Blueprint. Can he please provide the house some details of the
blueprint's vision for the future of the Pilbara?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Pilbara for
the question.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for West Swan, I call you to order for the first time.
Member for Cockburn, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr
D.T. REDMAN : It is fantastic to have a very credible organisation such as
CEDA running a State of the Regions series around all the development
commission regions, pulling together, in my view, a strong link between what I
call the St Georges Terrace businesses in Western Australia and what is
happening in regional Western Australia. I think it is fantastic. The one in
the Pilbara was very well supported. I could hardly see the other end of the
room because of the number of people who were there from a whole heap of
different companies and groups, which was supported by state government
agencies that play a role in the area.
We used the opportunity of the
opening of that forum to launch the Pilbara blueprint that came out of the
Duncan review, which looked at long-term planning around regional development
in Western Australia and those things that highlight both the challenges and
the opportunities and where the government and private sector can invest to
unlock the potential of regional Western Australia. To be able to talk about
that at the forum was a fantastic opportunity.
It also comes on the back of this
government's Pilbara Cities vision, which has been outstanding. It is
good to go back to Karratha, which I do from time to time, and see what I would
call the sharp point of regional development in Western Australia, the
fantastic transformation that that community has gone through, to now paint out
through the blueprint the next opportunities to support diversification in the
economy, particularly around tourism as an opportunity—underdone in my
view—particularly tourism links with the Indigenous culture and the
strong culture we have. We know we have the Burrup rock art there, which is
tens of thousands of years of history, and in our view it is somewhat an
underdeveloped opportunity. There are opportunities in agriculture, but also
opportunities to produce new energy services through the abundance of solar
energy up there. That was another opportunity presented on the day.
It was pleasing to see Alannah
MacTiernan there. She came up and addressed the forum. I think there is some
good news and some bad news for the Leader of the Opposition in Alannah
MacTiernan's presentation. I will start with the bad news. The bad news
is that in front of 300 people she said what a good job this government did
with the Pelago development, to see that as a significant resource at the end
of the main street. She stood up in front of those people and acknowledged what
a great project that was. The good news for the Leader of the Opposition is
that she is not in this chamber, because if she was, she would probably have
his job.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for West Swan, I might have given you a false sense of
security. You have been called three times, not one time.
the question.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for West Swan, I call you to order for the first time.
Member for Cockburn, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr
D.T. REDMAN : It is fantastic to have a very credible organisation such as
CEDA running a State of the Regions series around all the development
commission regions, pulling together, in my view, a strong link between what I
call the St Georges Terrace businesses in Western Australia and what is
happening in regional Western Australia. I think it is fantastic. The one in
the Pilbara was very well supported. I could hardly see the other end of the
room because of the number of people who were there from a whole heap of
different companies and groups, which was supported by state government
agencies that play a role in the area.
We used the opportunity of the
opening of that forum to launch the Pilbara blueprint that came out of the
Duncan review, which looked at long-term planning around regional development
in Western Australia and those things that highlight both the challenges and
the opportunities and where the government and private sector can invest to
unlock the potential of regional Western Australia. To be able to talk about
that at the forum was a fantastic opportunity.
It also comes on the back of this
government's Pilbara Cities vision, which has been outstanding. It is
good to go back to Karratha, which I do from time to time, and see what I would
call the sharp point of regional development in Western Australia, the
fantastic transformation that that community has gone through, to now paint out
through the blueprint the next opportunities to support diversification in the
economy, particularly around tourism as an opportunity—underdone in my
view—particularly tourism links with the Indigenous culture and the
strong culture we have. We know we have the Burrup rock art there, which is
tens of thousands of years of history, and in our view it is somewhat an
underdeveloped opportunity. There are opportunities in agriculture, but also
opportunities to produce new energy services through the abundance of solar
energy up there. That was another opportunity presented on the day.
It was pleasing to see Alannah
MacTiernan there. She came up and addressed the forum. I think there is some
good news and some bad news for the Leader of the Opposition in Alannah
MacTiernan's presentation. I will start with the bad news. The bad news
is that in front of 300 people she said what a good job this government did
with the Pelago development, to see that as a significant resource at the end
of the main street. She stood up in front of those people and acknowledged what
a great project that was. The good news for the Leader of the Opposition is
that she is not in this chamber, because if she was, she would probably have
his job.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for West Swan, I might have given you a false sense of
security. You have been called three times, not one time.
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