❓ Mrs. Harvey questions the Premier about potential job losses in the inner harbour due to the automated outer harbour project. The Premier denies job losses, highlighting job creation and improved port efficiency.
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WESTPORT TASKFORCE —
AUTOMATED OUTER HARBOUR
509. Mrs
L.M. HARVEY to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
A member interjected.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY : Pardon?
Can the Premier confirm that under
both scenarios for his automated outer harbour project, all the local jobs in
the inner harbour will be lost; it is just a matter of how quickly?
AUTOMATED OUTER HARBOUR
509. Mrs
L.M. HARVEY to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
A member interjected.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY : Pardon?
Can the Premier confirm that under
both scenarios for his automated outer harbour project, all the local jobs in
the inner harbour will be lost; it is just a matter of how quickly?
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No. Kwinana is around 20 kilometres
away from Fremantle, and the port there will be 15 or 20 kilometres away.
People will live in Rockingham, Cockburn, Fremantle and Kwinana. They will live
in Mosman Park and in Winthrop and other suburbs around the area. They will
live in Bicton. They will work at a modern port facility. You do not take all
the jobs away. You create jobs. You create jobs when you can cater for the
bigger ships of the future. You create jobs when you provide a better port that
provides a better service for the exporters and importers of Western Australia.
That is what you do.
These
glib lines you come up with! I mean, this state embraces technology. We
actually have technology in our port . We will have technology in a new
port. That is what we do. We do not have dockers carrying around stacks of
wheat on their backs anymore, which is apparently what members opposite want to
see happen. We want to have a modern and
efficient port that will take the traffic down through Anketell and Tonkin
Highway and away from the city centre and allows for it to be properly
designed for the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries, not a boutique port
that will cost twice as much to manage as a new facility. Go and ask Nicole
Lockwood. Nicole Lockwood is an expert on these things, and she has come up
with a brilliant blueprint —
Mr D.C. Nalder interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member
for Bateman is laughing at that, is he?
The SPEAKER : Member for
Bateman, you are on two calls.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for
Bateman has no right to say anything. He has been demoted.
Nicole Lockwood has come up with a great
way forward for this state. That is what we are going to now take forward to ensure
that we have a modern and efficient transport and freight network for the
future of this state.
Mr D.C. Nalder interjected.
The SPEAKER : Just before we
go on, member for Bateman, I do not want to hear your comments on every issue.
You are on two, and you are very likely going home very early.
away from Fremantle, and the port there will be 15 or 20 kilometres away.
People will live in Rockingham, Cockburn, Fremantle and Kwinana. They will live
in Mosman Park and in Winthrop and other suburbs around the area. They will
live in Bicton. They will work at a modern port facility. You do not take all
the jobs away. You create jobs. You create jobs when you can cater for the
bigger ships of the future. You create jobs when you provide a better port that
provides a better service for the exporters and importers of Western Australia.
That is what you do.
These
glib lines you come up with! I mean, this state embraces technology. We
actually have technology in our port . We will have technology in a new
port. That is what we do. We do not have dockers carrying around stacks of
wheat on their backs anymore, which is apparently what members opposite want to
see happen. We want to have a modern and
efficient port that will take the traffic down through Anketell and Tonkin
Highway and away from the city centre and allows for it to be properly
designed for the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries, not a boutique port
that will cost twice as much to manage as a new facility. Go and ask Nicole
Lockwood. Nicole Lockwood is an expert on these things, and she has come up
with a brilliant blueprint —
Mr D.C. Nalder interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member
for Bateman is laughing at that, is he?
The SPEAKER : Member for
Bateman, you are on two calls.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for
Bateman has no right to say anything. He has been demoted.
Nicole Lockwood has come up with a great
way forward for this state. That is what we are going to now take forward to ensure
that we have a modern and efficient transport and freight network for the
future of this state.
Mr D.C. Nalder interjected.
The SPEAKER : Just before we
go on, member for Bateman, I do not want to hear your comments on every issue.
You are on two, and you are very likely going home very early.
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