❓ Shadow Minister Ripper questions why Treasury's Western Power investment projection differed from the ERA's approved level, implying government interference. Premier Barnett denies government involvement and contrasts his government's approach to Labor's.
AnsweredQoN 274Legislative Assembly
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WESTERN POWER — ASSET INVESTMENT PROGRAM
I have a supplementary question. If the financial plan is only a Treasury projection, why did Treasury not simply project the ERA’s level of approved investment for Western Power, but instead made a different projection; and what role did the government have in that? Mr C.J. BARNETT
I have a supplementary question. If the financial plan is only a Treasury projection, why did Treasury not simply project the ERA’s level of approved investment for Western Power, but instead made a different projection; and what role did the government have in that? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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I do not think the government had any role in that. Mr E.S. Ripper : I doubt that very much. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: I do not think the government had any role in that. Mr E.S. Ripper : I doubt that very much. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
I do not think the government had any role in that. Mr E.S. Ripper : I doubt that very much. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr E.S. Ripper : I doubt that very much. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: I do not think the government had any role in that. Mr E.S. Ripper : I doubt that very much. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
I do not think the government had any role in that. Mr E.S. Ripper : I doubt that very much. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr E.S. Ripper : I doubt that very much. Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : The Leader of the Opposition may well doubt it. I do not know; I am not the Minister for Energy and I do not know what discussions took place. However, I am not — Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr E.S. Ripper : You’re the Treasurer. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Yes; I have been for a month. I am doing okay so far. As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
As I said yesterday, this displays the difference between a Labor government and a Liberal–National government. Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr E.S. Ripper : We plan for the future. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Labor governments do not plan; they are totally process driven, which is why they can never make good decisions. We will make our decisions on electricity or other charges and capital expenditure on an annual basis. Members opposite cannot seem to understand that the budget is legally, constitutionally, administratively and parliamentarily about the coming financial year. Members opposite can wander off into never–never land and into the ether of the forward estimates and continue to be irrelevant; meanwhile, we will govern the state and we will make the decisions.
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