❓ Mr. Barnett questions the Premier about the premium property tax threshold being indexed to CPI instead of land values, suggesting it will impact more families over time. The Premier defends the policy, citing budget pressures and the need for community contribution from wealthier individuals.
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PREMIUM PROPERTY TAX, THRESHOLD 399. Mr BARNETT to the Premier: I refer to the Premier’s new premium property tax and the fact that the $1 million threshold will be indexed to the consumer price index, rather than to increases in land values. (1) Is the Premier aware that within 20 years this tax will affect land currently valued at $300 000, and within one generation will drag many thousands of families into Labor’s tax on the family home? (2) Is the Premier aware, for example, that a young couple who buy a $100 000 block of land today will be snared by Labor’s new tax by the time they reach retirement age? Dr GALLOP
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(1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
PREMIUM PROPERTY TAX, THRESHOLD
I refer to the Premier’s new premium property tax and the fact that the $1 million threshold will be indexed to the consumer price index, rather than to increases in land values. (1) Is the Premier aware that within 20 years this tax will affect land currently valued at $300 000, and within one generation will drag many thousands of families into Labor’s tax on the family home? (2) Is the Premier aware, for example, that a young couple who buy a $100 000 block of land today will be snared by Labor’s new tax by the time they reach retirement age? Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
(1) Is the Premier aware that within 20 years this tax will affect land currently valued at $300 000, and within one generation will drag many thousands of families into Labor’s tax on the family home? (2) Is the Premier aware, for example, that a young couple who buy a $100 000 block of land today will be snared by Labor’s new tax by the time they reach retirement age? Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
(2) Is the Premier aware, for example, that a young couple who buy a $100 000 block of land today will be snared by Labor’s new tax by the time they reach retirement age? Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
(1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
PREMIUM PROPERTY TAX, THRESHOLD
I refer to the Premier’s new premium property tax and the fact that the $1 million threshold will be indexed to the consumer price index, rather than to increases in land values. (1) Is the Premier aware that within 20 years this tax will affect land currently valued at $300 000, and within one generation will drag many thousands of families into Labor’s tax on the family home? (2) Is the Premier aware, for example, that a young couple who buy a $100 000 block of land today will be snared by Labor’s new tax by the time they reach retirement age? Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
(1) Is the Premier aware that within 20 years this tax will affect land currently valued at $300 000, and within one generation will drag many thousands of families into Labor’s tax on the family home? (2) Is the Premier aware, for example, that a young couple who buy a $100 000 block of land today will be snared by Labor’s new tax by the time they reach retirement age? Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
(2) Is the Premier aware, for example, that a young couple who buy a $100 000 block of land today will be snared by Labor’s new tax by the time they reach retirement age? Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
Dr GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
(1)-(2) The point of using the consumer price index is to preserve the threshold in real terms. We live in times when the most important word we can use is “community”. We live in a time when international and national events have a big impact on Western Australia. We will have to get together as a community. That may mean making sure that the mutual respect between the different religions in our community is maintained. The Government will take a tough stand against those who want to discriminate, intimidate, harass or commit violence against minority religious groups. We live in a time of enormous pressure on our budget. The Labor Government inherited a situation in which the forward estimates would have seen Western Australia drift dangerously into deficit and debt. The Government had to come to grips with that in the context of a lot of pressure to deliver core services for ordinary families. The core services are education, health and police. I will relate that back to the premium property tax and the concept of community. We are all in this together. We have to meet the challenge of the collapse of Ansett Australia Ltd, of terrorism and of our budget in Western Australia. The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
The people the Treasurer calls the Belmont battlers are with the Government. They have to pay their rates and the goods and services tax from their low incomes. The Government is asking a segment of the community that has significant wealth to make a contribution; the people in our community who have the capacity to assist in this. The Treasurer has agreed that in this measure the Government will take into account the interests of people in our community who have low incomes. How will it be possible to forge together a community in this time of great pressure if those people who have the ability to assist make no contribution? How will we get trust back into our business relations if the people who run corporations continue to give themselves massive pay rises? How will we build a community when that happens? We are asking those 900 people in our community who have significant property holdings to play their part in assisting us to preserve our health and education systems and to get more police on the beat. My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
My view of those people is different from that of the Leader of the Opposition. I think they are fine people who will accept the challenge that has been put forward, because they are Western Australian citizens and they want a community that binds people together and meets the common challenge.
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