❓ Minister Roberts outlines the police and emergency services' role in the successful search for Stuart Brodie, commending their efforts and criticising opposition comments about cost recovery.
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Following the successful discovery of Mr Stuart Brodie yesterday, will the minister outline to the house the role played by the police and emergency services? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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I thank the member for Riverton for the question. I am very pleased that the search for Stuart Brodie concluded when he was located alive and physically well after being missing for 40 days. I take this opportunity to commend our 16 police officers who were involved in the search. I thank also the emergency volunteers who were involved in the search in particular. I have been advised that some 51 State Emergency Service volunteers spent almost 650 hours looking for Mr Brodie. They also supplied tracker dogs and vehicles. The SES units involved included Boddington, Mandurah, Murray, Waroona, Collie and regional teams, as well as the Stirling tracker dog team. The search grid in the north Bannister area, which is north of Boddington, took place in quite horrendous conditions. The bush was so thick that horses were unable to be used. Volunteers operated in below freezing temperatures. They began searching for Mr Brodie at 4.00 am and ran the risk of hypothermia. Police have advised me that the initial analysis shows that the search cost in the vicinity of $50 000. I was disappointed this morning to hear on ABC radio a member of the opposition labelling Mr Brodie selfish and advising that he should contribute towards the cost of the search. It seems that the opposition has jumped in with both feet by saying that. Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question. I am very pleased that the search for Stuart Brodie concluded when he was located alive and physically well after being missing for 40 days. I take this opportunity to commend our 16 police officers who were involved in the search. I thank also the emergency volunteers who were involved in the search in particular. I have been advised that some 51 State Emergency Service volunteers spent almost 650 hours looking for Mr Brodie. They also supplied tracker dogs and vehicles. The SES units involved included Boddington, Mandurah, Murray, Waroona, Collie and regional teams, as well as the Stirling tracker dog team. The search grid in the north Bannister area, which is north of Boddington, took place in quite horrendous conditions. The bush was so thick that horses were unable to be used. Volunteers operated in below freezing temperatures. They began searching for Mr Brodie at 4.00 am and ran the risk of hypothermia. Police have advised me that the initial analysis shows that the search cost in the vicinity of $50 000. I was disappointed this morning to hear on ABC radio a member of the opposition labelling Mr Brodie selfish and advising that he should contribute towards the cost of the search. It seems that the opposition has jumped in with both feet by saying that. Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
I thank the member for Riverton for the question. I am very pleased that the search for Stuart Brodie concluded when he was located alive and physically well after being missing for 40 days. I take this opportunity to commend our 16 police officers who were involved in the search. I thank also the emergency volunteers who were involved in the search in particular. I have been advised that some 51 State Emergency Service volunteers spent almost 650 hours looking for Mr Brodie. They also supplied tracker dogs and vehicles. The SES units involved included Boddington, Mandurah, Murray, Waroona, Collie and regional teams, as well as the Stirling tracker dog team. The search grid in the north Bannister area, which is north of Boddington, took place in quite horrendous conditions. The bush was so thick that horses were unable to be used. Volunteers operated in below freezing temperatures. They began searching for Mr Brodie at 4.00 am and ran the risk of hypothermia. Police have advised me that the initial analysis shows that the search cost in the vicinity of $50 000. I was disappointed this morning to hear on ABC radio a member of the opposition labelling Mr Brodie selfish and advising that he should contribute towards the cost of the search. It seems that the opposition has jumped in with both feet by saying that. Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
I was disappointed this morning to hear on ABC radio a member of the opposition labelling Mr Brodie selfish and advising that he should contribute towards the cost of the search. It seems that the opposition has jumped in with both feet by saying that. Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for Riverton for the question. I am very pleased that the search for Stuart Brodie concluded when he was located alive and physically well after being missing for 40 days. I take this opportunity to commend our 16 police officers who were involved in the search. I thank also the emergency volunteers who were involved in the search in particular. I have been advised that some 51 State Emergency Service volunteers spent almost 650 hours looking for Mr Brodie. They also supplied tracker dogs and vehicles. The SES units involved included Boddington, Mandurah, Murray, Waroona, Collie and regional teams, as well as the Stirling tracker dog team. The search grid in the north Bannister area, which is north of Boddington, took place in quite horrendous conditions. The bush was so thick that horses were unable to be used. Volunteers operated in below freezing temperatures. They began searching for Mr Brodie at 4.00 am and ran the risk of hypothermia. Police have advised me that the initial analysis shows that the search cost in the vicinity of $50 000. I was disappointed this morning to hear on ABC radio a member of the opposition labelling Mr Brodie selfish and advising that he should contribute towards the cost of the search. It seems that the opposition has jumped in with both feet by saying that. Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
I thank the member for Riverton for the question. I am very pleased that the search for Stuart Brodie concluded when he was located alive and physically well after being missing for 40 days. I take this opportunity to commend our 16 police officers who were involved in the search. I thank also the emergency volunteers who were involved in the search in particular. I have been advised that some 51 State Emergency Service volunteers spent almost 650 hours looking for Mr Brodie. They also supplied tracker dogs and vehicles. The SES units involved included Boddington, Mandurah, Murray, Waroona, Collie and regional teams, as well as the Stirling tracker dog team. The search grid in the north Bannister area, which is north of Boddington, took place in quite horrendous conditions. The bush was so thick that horses were unable to be used. Volunteers operated in below freezing temperatures. They began searching for Mr Brodie at 4.00 am and ran the risk of hypothermia. Police have advised me that the initial analysis shows that the search cost in the vicinity of $50 000. I was disappointed this morning to hear on ABC radio a member of the opposition labelling Mr Brodie selfish and advising that he should contribute towards the cost of the search. It seems that the opposition has jumped in with both feet by saying that. Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
I was disappointed this morning to hear on ABC radio a member of the opposition labelling Mr Brodie selfish and advising that he should contribute towards the cost of the search. It seems that the opposition has jumped in with both feet by saying that. Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas : Use the correct words. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I have the ABC transcript here, which says “labelled selfish by the opposition”. The member used the word “selfish”, and said that Mr Brodie should contribute to the cost of the search operation. Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Is this the opposition’s policy or not? Is this its position? Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : What I would like - Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Dr S.C. Thomas : I do not resile from the comments I made. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : The transcript of the ABC radio interview states that the member said - You take time off of work, the employees are losing out on money, the whole community inputs into a search like this, and I think it’s just a fairly selfish act not to let anybody know that you’re going to do it. There are plenty of ways . . . if you need time out, if you’re going to have a personal crisis, there are plenty of ways to do so without impacting on the rest of the community. Perhaps members opposite do not have much compassion and perhaps they do not know much about people who have a mental illness or face a crisis in their life. Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mr R.F. Johnson : Don’t talk rubbish. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Members opposite are telling me to not talk rubbish. The fact is that - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : Mrs Brodie and her five children - Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker : Remember Alice? The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the members for Capel and Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I am sure that Mrs Brodie and her five children would also like to thank our volunteers for the job they did. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can only imagine the kind of hell that Mrs Brodie and her five children have been through over the past five or six weeks. I understand that Mr Brodie has spoken to the media today and apologised to everyone, including to the SES volunteers and those who spent their time and resources attempting to find him. I do not know whether the Leader of the Opposition stands by the types of comments that were made by the opposition on radio this morning. I call upon him - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS : I can advise members that the police will not seek a recovery of those costs. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to show some leadership and say that the opposition does not believe that Mr Brodie should be pursued for the costs of the rescue and that his wife and family should not have to bear that hardship as well.
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