❓ The WA parliamentary question highlights the perceived differences in funding commitments for Perth's freight networks between the federal Labor and Coalition parties, favoring Labor's larger investment and forward-thinking infrastructure plans.
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FREIGHT NETWORKS - FEDERAL LABOR COMMITMENT
Are there significant differences between a Kevin Rudd Labor commitment to funding Perth’s vital freight networks and that made by the tired and out of touch Howard coalition? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Are there significant differences between a Kevin Rudd Labor commitment to funding Perth’s vital freight networks and that made by the tired and out of touch Howard coalition? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question. I know that he will appreciate very deeply the great differences. First of all, we start off with a difference in quantum. The commitment we have seen from the federal team for our freight networks in Perth is about $405 million, which is considerably less than the $598 million in commitments that we have had from the Rudd team. That is not surprising, of course, because, as we know, the federal coalition has already committed around 29 per cent of the total AusLink 2 fund to Queensland in a pork feast that it engaged in very early on in the election period. There is also a very significant difference, and one that I know Mr Speaker will understand, in the projects that have been included in the metropolitan funding. In particular, only the Rudd team has included road and rail infrastructure into the Kwinana outer harbour. We know that there is going to be a massive change. We are already seeing a great change in the location of our industrial activity and ports. In the Kwinana outer harbour we already process about 18.3 million tonnes per annum of product. By 2015, when the new container terminal will be built, it will be even busier. There is also the 1 000-hectare Latitude 32 industrial estate, which is developing down there. Unfortunately, the conservatives will fund only road and rail infrastructure into the existing Fremantle port. They are fixated on the Fremantle eastern bypass and Roe Highway, stage 8. They were projects planned in the 1960s and 1970s which, by now, have outlived their usefulness. If we want to have a federal partner that is actually looking to the future, there is only one alternative and that is a Rudd Labor government.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I know that he will appreciate very deeply the great differences. First of all, we start off with a difference in quantum. The commitment we have seen from the federal team for our freight networks in Perth is about $405 million, which is considerably less than the $598 million in commitments that we have had from the Rudd team. That is not surprising, of course, because, as we know, the federal coalition has already committed around 29 per cent of the total AusLink 2 fund to Queensland in a pork feast that it engaged in very early on in the election period. There is also a very significant difference, and one that I know Mr Speaker will understand, in the projects that have been included in the metropolitan funding. In particular, only the Rudd team has included road and rail infrastructure into the Kwinana outer harbour. We know that there is going to be a massive change. We are already seeing a great change in the location of our industrial activity and ports. In the Kwinana outer harbour we already process about 18.3 million tonnes per annum of product. By 2015, when the new container terminal will be built, it will be even busier. There is also the 1 000-hectare Latitude 32 industrial estate, which is developing down there. Unfortunately, the conservatives will fund only road and rail infrastructure into the existing Fremantle port. They are fixated on the Fremantle eastern bypass and Roe Highway, stage 8. They were projects planned in the 1960s and 1970s which, by now, have outlived their usefulness. If we want to have a federal partner that is actually looking to the future, there is only one alternative and that is a Rudd Labor government.
I thank the member for the question. I know that he will appreciate very deeply the great differences. First of all, we start off with a difference in quantum. The commitment we have seen from the federal team for our freight networks in Perth is about $405 million, which is considerably less than the $598 million in commitments that we have had from the Rudd team. That is not surprising, of course, because, as we know, the federal coalition has already committed around 29 per cent of the total AusLink 2 fund to Queensland in a pork feast that it engaged in very early on in the election period. There is also a very significant difference, and one that I know Mr Speaker will understand, in the projects that have been included in the metropolitan funding. In particular, only the Rudd team has included road and rail infrastructure into the Kwinana outer harbour. We know that there is going to be a massive change. We are already seeing a great change in the location of our industrial activity and ports. In the Kwinana outer harbour we already process about 18.3 million tonnes per annum of product. By 2015, when the new container terminal will be built, it will be even busier. There is also the 1 000-hectare Latitude 32 industrial estate, which is developing down there. Unfortunately, the conservatives will fund only road and rail infrastructure into the existing Fremantle port. They are fixated on the Fremantle eastern bypass and Roe Highway, stage 8. They were projects planned in the 1960s and 1970s which, by now, have outlived their usefulness. If we want to have a federal partner that is actually looking to the future, there is only one alternative and that is a Rudd Labor government.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. I know that he will appreciate very deeply the great differences. First of all, we start off with a difference in quantum. The commitment we have seen from the federal team for our freight networks in Perth is about $405 million, which is considerably less than the $598 million in commitments that we have had from the Rudd team. That is not surprising, of course, because, as we know, the federal coalition has already committed around 29 per cent of the total AusLink 2 fund to Queensland in a pork feast that it engaged in very early on in the election period. There is also a very significant difference, and one that I know Mr Speaker will understand, in the projects that have been included in the metropolitan funding. In particular, only the Rudd team has included road and rail infrastructure into the Kwinana outer harbour. We know that there is going to be a massive change. We are already seeing a great change in the location of our industrial activity and ports. In the Kwinana outer harbour we already process about 18.3 million tonnes per annum of product. By 2015, when the new container terminal will be built, it will be even busier. There is also the 1 000-hectare Latitude 32 industrial estate, which is developing down there. Unfortunately, the conservatives will fund only road and rail infrastructure into the existing Fremantle port. They are fixated on the Fremantle eastern bypass and Roe Highway, stage 8. They were projects planned in the 1960s and 1970s which, by now, have outlived their usefulness. If we want to have a federal partner that is actually looking to the future, there is only one alternative and that is a Rudd Labor government.
I thank the member for the question. I know that he will appreciate very deeply the great differences. First of all, we start off with a difference in quantum. The commitment we have seen from the federal team for our freight networks in Perth is about $405 million, which is considerably less than the $598 million in commitments that we have had from the Rudd team. That is not surprising, of course, because, as we know, the federal coalition has already committed around 29 per cent of the total AusLink 2 fund to Queensland in a pork feast that it engaged in very early on in the election period. There is also a very significant difference, and one that I know Mr Speaker will understand, in the projects that have been included in the metropolitan funding. In particular, only the Rudd team has included road and rail infrastructure into the Kwinana outer harbour. We know that there is going to be a massive change. We are already seeing a great change in the location of our industrial activity and ports. In the Kwinana outer harbour we already process about 18.3 million tonnes per annum of product. By 2015, when the new container terminal will be built, it will be even busier. There is also the 1 000-hectare Latitude 32 industrial estate, which is developing down there. Unfortunately, the conservatives will fund only road and rail infrastructure into the existing Fremantle port. They are fixated on the Fremantle eastern bypass and Roe Highway, stage 8. They were projects planned in the 1960s and 1970s which, by now, have outlived their usefulness. If we want to have a federal partner that is actually looking to the future, there is only one alternative and that is a Rudd Labor government.
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