❓ The WA government is proceeding with the Peel Deviation project, but is facing funding challenges due to the Federal government's refusal to increase its contribution despite rising costs. The Minister accuses federal members of undermining WA's interests.
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Will the minister please update the house on the Peel deviation? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I am very pleased to advise my good friend and parliamentary colleague the member for Mandurah that the tender process for the Peel deviation is now under way with the request for proposals for the alliance contract distributed to industry last week, and there is a great deal of enthusiasm and excitement within the industry about this project. We now expect to have the project under construction by November 2006. Members can see that the state government is absolutely committed to this project and it will have it up and running by 2006. We have some bad news because, of course, the federal government is once again shafting Western Australia. As with civil construction projects all across Australia, the preliminary estimates that were made in April 2004 have had to be revised, as we have discussed previously in this house. We went to the commonwealth, as we told this house before but I will repeat it for those members who perhaps have forgotten, with two propositions. We said that in 2005 dollars this project would now cost an extra $110 million and we expected it to do one of two things. Firstly, it should join us and go halves in the additional cost that is required; that is $55 million each, so that the project could continue as originally planned. The commonwealth said, “No way. We have no money. Until round two of AusLink kicks in in 2010 we cannot put in any further money.” We said, “Okay, we have another plan that enables us to do the major and very important part of the project, which is the Peel deviation, and part of the Kwinana Freeway extension, for $370 million. We will foot the entire bill, including the extra $30 million, but we need you to be prepared to continue to put in your $170 million and give us an indication that you will help us out in round two of AusLink.” When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied : I am very pleased to advise my good friend and parliamentary colleague the member for Mandurah that the tender process for the Peel deviation is now under way with the request for proposals for the alliance contract distributed to industry last week, and there is a great deal of enthusiasm and excitement within the industry about this project. We now expect to have the project under construction by November 2006. Members can see that the state government is absolutely committed to this project and it will have it up and running by 2006. We have some bad news because, of course, the federal government is once again shafting Western Australia. As with civil construction projects all across Australia, the preliminary estimates that were made in April 2004 have had to be revised, as we have discussed previously in this house. We went to the commonwealth, as we told this house before but I will repeat it for those members who perhaps have forgotten, with two propositions. We said that in 2005 dollars this project would now cost an extra $110 million and we expected it to do one of two things. Firstly, it should join us and go halves in the additional cost that is required; that is $55 million each, so that the project could continue as originally planned. The commonwealth said, “No way. We have no money. Until round two of AusLink kicks in in 2010 we cannot put in any further money.” We said, “Okay, we have another plan that enables us to do the major and very important part of the project, which is the Peel deviation, and part of the Kwinana Freeway extension, for $370 million. We will foot the entire bill, including the extra $30 million, but we need you to be prepared to continue to put in your $170 million and give us an indication that you will help us out in round two of AusLink.” When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
I am very pleased to advise my good friend and parliamentary colleague the member for Mandurah that the tender process for the Peel deviation is now under way with the request for proposals for the alliance contract distributed to industry last week, and there is a great deal of enthusiasm and excitement within the industry about this project. We now expect to have the project under construction by November 2006. Members can see that the state government is absolutely committed to this project and it will have it up and running by 2006. We have some bad news because, of course, the federal government is once again shafting Western Australia. As with civil construction projects all across Australia, the preliminary estimates that were made in April 2004 have had to be revised, as we have discussed previously in this house. We went to the commonwealth, as we told this house before but I will repeat it for those members who perhaps have forgotten, with two propositions. We said that in 2005 dollars this project would now cost an extra $110 million and we expected it to do one of two things. Firstly, it should join us and go halves in the additional cost that is required; that is $55 million each, so that the project could continue as originally planned. The commonwealth said, “No way. We have no money. Until round two of AusLink kicks in in 2010 we cannot put in any further money.” We said, “Okay, we have another plan that enables us to do the major and very important part of the project, which is the Peel deviation, and part of the Kwinana Freeway extension, for $370 million. We will foot the entire bill, including the extra $30 million, but we need you to be prepared to continue to put in your $170 million and give us an indication that you will help us out in round two of AusLink.” When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
We have some bad news because, of course, the federal government is once again shafting Western Australia. As with civil construction projects all across Australia, the preliminary estimates that were made in April 2004 have had to be revised, as we have discussed previously in this house. We went to the commonwealth, as we told this house before but I will repeat it for those members who perhaps have forgotten, with two propositions. We said that in 2005 dollars this project would now cost an extra $110 million and we expected it to do one of two things. Firstly, it should join us and go halves in the additional cost that is required; that is $55 million each, so that the project could continue as originally planned. The commonwealth said, “No way. We have no money. Until round two of AusLink kicks in in 2010 we cannot put in any further money.” We said, “Okay, we have another plan that enables us to do the major and very important part of the project, which is the Peel deviation, and part of the Kwinana Freeway extension, for $370 million. We will foot the entire bill, including the extra $30 million, but we need you to be prepared to continue to put in your $170 million and give us an indication that you will help us out in round two of AusLink.” When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied : I am very pleased to advise my good friend and parliamentary colleague the member for Mandurah that the tender process for the Peel deviation is now under way with the request for proposals for the alliance contract distributed to industry last week, and there is a great deal of enthusiasm and excitement within the industry about this project. We now expect to have the project under construction by November 2006. Members can see that the state government is absolutely committed to this project and it will have it up and running by 2006. We have some bad news because, of course, the federal government is once again shafting Western Australia. As with civil construction projects all across Australia, the preliminary estimates that were made in April 2004 have had to be revised, as we have discussed previously in this house. We went to the commonwealth, as we told this house before but I will repeat it for those members who perhaps have forgotten, with two propositions. We said that in 2005 dollars this project would now cost an extra $110 million and we expected it to do one of two things. Firstly, it should join us and go halves in the additional cost that is required; that is $55 million each, so that the project could continue as originally planned. The commonwealth said, “No way. We have no money. Until round two of AusLink kicks in in 2010 we cannot put in any further money.” We said, “Okay, we have another plan that enables us to do the major and very important part of the project, which is the Peel deviation, and part of the Kwinana Freeway extension, for $370 million. We will foot the entire bill, including the extra $30 million, but we need you to be prepared to continue to put in your $170 million and give us an indication that you will help us out in round two of AusLink.” When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
I am very pleased to advise my good friend and parliamentary colleague the member for Mandurah that the tender process for the Peel deviation is now under way with the request for proposals for the alliance contract distributed to industry last week, and there is a great deal of enthusiasm and excitement within the industry about this project. We now expect to have the project under construction by November 2006. Members can see that the state government is absolutely committed to this project and it will have it up and running by 2006. We have some bad news because, of course, the federal government is once again shafting Western Australia. As with civil construction projects all across Australia, the preliminary estimates that were made in April 2004 have had to be revised, as we have discussed previously in this house. We went to the commonwealth, as we told this house before but I will repeat it for those members who perhaps have forgotten, with two propositions. We said that in 2005 dollars this project would now cost an extra $110 million and we expected it to do one of two things. Firstly, it should join us and go halves in the additional cost that is required; that is $55 million each, so that the project could continue as originally planned. The commonwealth said, “No way. We have no money. Until round two of AusLink kicks in in 2010 we cannot put in any further money.” We said, “Okay, we have another plan that enables us to do the major and very important part of the project, which is the Peel deviation, and part of the Kwinana Freeway extension, for $370 million. We will foot the entire bill, including the extra $30 million, but we need you to be prepared to continue to put in your $170 million and give us an indication that you will help us out in round two of AusLink.” When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
We have some bad news because, of course, the federal government is once again shafting Western Australia. As with civil construction projects all across Australia, the preliminary estimates that were made in April 2004 have had to be revised, as we have discussed previously in this house. We went to the commonwealth, as we told this house before but I will repeat it for those members who perhaps have forgotten, with two propositions. We said that in 2005 dollars this project would now cost an extra $110 million and we expected it to do one of two things. Firstly, it should join us and go halves in the additional cost that is required; that is $55 million each, so that the project could continue as originally planned. The commonwealth said, “No way. We have no money. Until round two of AusLink kicks in in 2010 we cannot put in any further money.” We said, “Okay, we have another plan that enables us to do the major and very important part of the project, which is the Peel deviation, and part of the Kwinana Freeway extension, for $370 million. We will foot the entire bill, including the extra $30 million, but we need you to be prepared to continue to put in your $170 million and give us an indication that you will help us out in round two of AusLink.” When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
When I spoke to the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Mr Jim Lloyd, a very reasonable man, he said he perfectly understood it because he had exactly the same problem with the Albury-Wodonga bypass, which would cost an extra $150 million. That is the blow-out on the Albury-Wodonga bypass, and the federal government will actually fit that - Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER : Order, member! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know that when the member for Carine’s party was in government it did not do projects, so she never had this sort of experience. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : This is a very important matter for this state and we will set out the facts today. Members opposite do not like it, but we will set out the facts. Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Mr Lloyd made it quite clear that he understood our problem because he had the same problem around the country and had to pour more money into Victoria and New South Wales for those states to cope with the increase in civil construction costs. However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
However, we now have a letter from Mr Lloyd, and it is obvious that the member for Canning, Don Randall, has got to Mr Lloyd, because now the federal government has said that it will not contribute the funds and is not prepared to accept either one of those options. It will put in only $170 million and will do that only if we do the whole project. The federal government is saying that it is not prepared to fund this project 50 per cent; it is not prepared, as always has been the agreement, to go halves with the Western Australian government on this project. We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
We are drawing a line in the sand over this. We are saying that we will not sign the AusLink agreement; we will not continue to cop Western Australia being ripped off. What Western Australia needs in the federal Parliament are some Barnaby Joyces, but we have “Judas” Randall, who is not saying to the federal minister, “Give more to Queensland”; he is saying, “Don’t give anything to Western Australia.” We have “Judas” Randall and “Judas” Campbell going into the Parliament and saying, “No, I reckon it is okay for WA - which is a third of the continent, has 30 per cent of the value of exports, has 10 per cent of the population and is growing at a rate of 7.5 per cent - to get less than seven per cent of road funding and one per cent of rail funding.” We do not think it is okay. We are getting on with the job and we will be building our proportion of the road. Come October - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Come October 2007, the Judases from the conservative side of politics in federal Parliament who represent Western Australia can explain to the people of WA why we are getting so short-changed. We are getting on with the job. Our road will start. We will be out there with the D9s in November 2006 and the road will stop and there will be a big sign telling people why it has stopped. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the members for Vasse and Carine and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
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