❓ Mr. Day questions the Education Minister about funding for Ellenbrook High School, alleging a discrepancy between the Minister's statement and the budget. The Minister deflects, blaming the previous government's financial mismanagement and asserting the money is in the budget, without specifying where.
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I refer to the minister’s comment to the member for Swan Hills in this House on 6 May, the day the budget was presented, when he said - The member can go back to her constituency and say that the Minister for Education has stood up in the Parliament and said that work on Ellenbrook high school will begin in the forthcoming financial year and the target for its opening is 2007. (1) Is the minister aware that there is not one cent of funding in the Department of Education and Training’s capital works budget to begin Ellenbrook high school in the forthcoming financial year? (2) Will the minister now admit that he has misled both this House and the people of Swan Hills? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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(1)-(2) This question demonstrates why this Government inherited a State with finances that had been hopelessly mismanaged. The former education minister, who was incapable of running an education budget, blew out the finances by hundreds of millions of dollars and now another former senior minister has stood and made that assertion. The money is in the budget. Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
(2) Will the minister now admit that he has misled both this House and the people of Swan Hills? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) This question demonstrates why this Government inherited a State with finances that had been hopelessly mismanaged. The former education minister, who was incapable of running an education budget, blew out the finances by hundreds of millions of dollars and now another former senior minister has stood and made that assertion. The money is in the budget. Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) This question demonstrates why this Government inherited a State with finances that had been hopelessly mismanaged. The former education minister, who was incapable of running an education budget, blew out the finances by hundreds of millions of dollars and now another former senior minister has stood and made that assertion. The money is in the budget. Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
(1)-(2) This question demonstrates why this Government inherited a State with finances that had been hopelessly mismanaged. The former education minister, who was incapable of running an education budget, blew out the finances by hundreds of millions of dollars and now another former senior minister has stood and made that assertion. The money is in the budget. Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
(2) Will the minister now admit that he has misled both this House and the people of Swan Hills? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) This question demonstrates why this Government inherited a State with finances that had been hopelessly mismanaged. The former education minister, who was incapable of running an education budget, blew out the finances by hundreds of millions of dollars and now another former senior minister has stood and made that assertion. The money is in the budget. Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) This question demonstrates why this Government inherited a State with finances that had been hopelessly mismanaged. The former education minister, who was incapable of running an education budget, blew out the finances by hundreds of millions of dollars and now another former senior minister has stood and made that assertion. The money is in the budget. Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
(1)-(2) This question demonstrates why this Government inherited a State with finances that had been hopelessly mismanaged. The former education minister, who was incapable of running an education budget, blew out the finances by hundreds of millions of dollars and now another former senior minister has stood and made that assertion. The money is in the budget. Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Where? Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: The money is in the budget.
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