❓ Minister Grylls outlines the 'Royalties for Regions' policy, allocating 25% of mining and petroleum royalties to regional projects, exceeding previous Labor government spending. He emphasizes a renewed focus on regional development and invites bipartisan support.
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ROYALTIES FOR REGIONS — GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND OUTCOMES
As the minister is leading a renewed emphasis on regional development in Western Australia, can he briefly outline how royalties for regions will enrich and revitalise country communities that have been neglected for the past eight years by the former Labor government? Mr B.J. GRYLLS
As the minister is leading a renewed emphasis on regional development in Western Australia, can he briefly outline how royalties for regions will enrich and revitalise country communities that have been neglected for the past eight years by the former Labor government? Mr B.J. GRYLLS
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I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. I figured that, given the outcome of the election, by the fourth question time I would have had a question from the opposition, but obviously I will not get one. I am very happy to inform the Parliament of a new feeling of optimism in regional Western Australia. Our wonderful regions—the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the goldfields, the mid-west, the wheatbelt, the great southern, the south west and the Peel—can look forward to renewed focus and support from the new Parliament. Mr M.P. Murray interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. I figured that, given the outcome of the election, by the fourth question time I would have had a question from the opposition, but obviously I will not get one. I am very happy to inform the Parliament of a new feeling of optimism in regional Western Australia. Our wonderful regions—the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the goldfields, the mid-west, the wheatbelt, the great southern, the south west and the Peel—can look forward to renewed focus and support from the new Parliament. Mr M.P. Murray interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. I figured that, given the outcome of the election, by the fourth question time I would have had a question from the opposition, but obviously I will not get one. I am very happy to inform the Parliament of a new feeling of optimism in regional Western Australia. Our wonderful regions—the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the goldfields, the mid-west, the wheatbelt, the great southern, the south west and the Peel—can look forward to renewed focus and support from the new Parliament. Mr M.P. Murray interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Mr M.P. Murray interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. I figured that, given the outcome of the election, by the fourth question time I would have had a question from the opposition, but obviously I will not get one. I am very happy to inform the Parliament of a new feeling of optimism in regional Western Australia. Our wonderful regions—the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the goldfields, the mid-west, the wheatbelt, the great southern, the south west and the Peel—can look forward to renewed focus and support from the new Parliament. Mr M.P. Murray interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
I thank the member for Geraldton for the question. I figured that, given the outcome of the election, by the fourth question time I would have had a question from the opposition, but obviously I will not get one. I am very happy to inform the Parliament of a new feeling of optimism in regional Western Australia. Our wonderful regions—the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the goldfields, the mid-west, the wheatbelt, the great southern, the south west and the Peel—can look forward to renewed focus and support from the new Parliament. Mr M.P. Murray interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Mr M.P. Murray interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : It is a great pity the member for Collie-Preston was not this passionate when his party was in government. Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
Country Western Australia is very aware of the support from both sides of Parliament for the royalties for regions policy. Against a backdrop of electoral reform that abolished country representation, and the general neglect of regional services and infrastructure, the regions made it very clear at this year’s election that it was time for a change from the government’s city-centric focus. Royalties for regions is a plan born in the regions, and taken from a plan to government policy by the voters from the regions, and it is now to be implemented by the Liberal-National government. I will outline for the Parliament the guiding principles of royalties for regions. Firstly, 25 per cent of mining and petroleum royalties will be allocated to new projects and services in regional areas of Western Australia. Secondly, these allocations will be above and beyond the global amount of spending that Labor had committed to the regions. Thirdly, cabinet has established three funds into which all moneys paid will be royalties for regions funding. They are the regional infrastructure and headworks fund, the country local government fund and the regional community services fund. The first announcements on royalties for regions funding will be made in the coming weeks. Full details of royalties for regions will be made available in the midyear review to be released in December. I ask all members of Parliament in this chamber and the other place to join together to deliver a new deal to those who choose to live, visit or invest in regional Western Australia. I look forward to working with every member of Parliament, including the member for Collie-Preston, to make sure that royalties for regions delivers its outcomes.
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