❓ Treasurer Ripper deflects a question about the Opposition's Expenditure Review Committee by demanding they clarify their policy promises and associated costs, highlighting perceived inconsistencies and unsustainable spending plans.
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OPPOSITION EXPENDITURE REVIEW COMMITTEE
The opposition has announced plans to establish an expenditure review committee. What does the Treasurer see as its number one priority? Mr E.S. RIPPER
The opposition has announced plans to establish an expenditure review committee. What does the Treasurer see as its number one priority? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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I thank the member very much for his wise question. The very first thing that the opposition’s new expenditure review committee must do is to come clean on which of the promises the Liberals have made over the past two years they actually intend to keep. Do members opposite even know the promises they have made? Do they have a list? There is uncharacteristic silence from the member for Vasse. Let me give him a few examples so that he can start developing a list of what his shadow ministerial colleagues have been doing. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: I thank the member very much for his wise question. The very first thing that the opposition’s new expenditure review committee must do is to come clean on which of the promises the Liberals have made over the past two years they actually intend to keep. Do members opposite even know the promises they have made? Do they have a list? There is uncharacteristic silence from the member for Vasse. Let me give him a few examples so that he can start developing a list of what his shadow ministerial colleagues have been doing. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
I thank the member very much for his wise question. The very first thing that the opposition’s new expenditure review committee must do is to come clean on which of the promises the Liberals have made over the past two years they actually intend to keep. Do members opposite even know the promises they have made? Do they have a list? There is uncharacteristic silence from the member for Vasse. Let me give him a few examples so that he can start developing a list of what his shadow ministerial colleagues have been doing. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
. . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: I thank the member very much for his wise question. The very first thing that the opposition’s new expenditure review committee must do is to come clean on which of the promises the Liberals have made over the past two years they actually intend to keep. Do members opposite even know the promises they have made? Do they have a list? There is uncharacteristic silence from the member for Vasse. Let me give him a few examples so that he can start developing a list of what his shadow ministerial colleagues have been doing. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
I thank the member very much for his wise question. The very first thing that the opposition’s new expenditure review committee must do is to come clean on which of the promises the Liberals have made over the past two years they actually intend to keep. Do members opposite even know the promises they have made? Do they have a list? There is uncharacteristic silence from the member for Vasse. Let me give him a few examples so that he can start developing a list of what his shadow ministerial colleagues have been doing. Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Dawesville chirps by way of interjection. On 31 July 2006 he promised a 21 per cent pay rise for nurses. Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Dr K.D. Hames : I did not. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I will refer to a broadcast on 720 ABC news in Perth on 31 July 2006 at 9.00 am - NEWSREADER The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community. I am actually doing the job of the member for Vasse by trying to bring to account his shadow ministerial colleagues. I do not know what he will do with Hon Peter Collier because he promised a 20 per cent pay rise for teachers. I do not know what he will do about himself because he promised a $328 million tax cut. I do not know what he will do about the member for Hillarys because he wants to equip every front-line police officer with a laser stun gun. I wonder how much that would cost, Minister for Police? Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The State Opposition has declared its support for the nurses’ union’s push for a 21% pay rise over the next three years. . . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
. . . KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
KIM HAMES We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
We’ve got the money, we’ve got a one-and-a-half billion dollars surplus and I think it’s time that we put this into the professions where we desperately need people that provide a great service for the community.
Mr T. Buswell : It’s a Taser, not a laser! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Order, it is difficult to deal with one interjection, but when there are 20 it is impossible. Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : I am sure the Leader of the Opposition can restrain himself from speaking when I am on my feet. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Cottesloe and the member for Bunbury to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : Even Hon Simon O’Brien has been at it. He has promised late-night public transport services. The member for Darling Range has gone out of his electorate - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Cottesloe and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The member for Darling Range has promised the Fremantle eastern bypass. What do members reckon it would cost to buy back the land and build the Fremantle eastern bypass? Imagine what that would cost. The Leader of the Opposition wants to take some public service departments and shift them to regional and rural areas. That is interesting news for the public service. I wonder how much that would cost. Leader of the Opposition, which of those promises are still operative? Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : All will be revealed. Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : All will be revealed! Some of those promises are not operative because he will not say. He did not say “all are operative”; he said “all will be revealed”. The very first task of the opposition’s new expenditure review committee is to develop a list of the promises the opposition has made. It should then tell the public how much each of those promises will cost, the total to date and which of those promises are still operative. I think I know what the opposition will do. It will declare some of those promises to be no longer operative because, if I am asked, the list is already unsustainable from the point of view of the public’s finances. An interesting question, which I asked yesterday, is: who will be on the committee? I think the member for Vasse will be pretty lonely. I think his suitability to chair the ERC is a bit of a problem because he has a record. He has been in government; he was the president of the Shire of Busselton. He has been an activist in Busselton in many different capacities. On this occasion he had executive authority. During that time expenditure on consultants ballooned by 800 per cent and he increased local government rates by 15 per cent. In two years there was a 15 per cent increase in taxes. I chair a prudent expenditure review committee. We have always delivered budgets in surplus. We have had record infrastructure programs and record low debt. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member for South Perth to order. Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : Other than vociferous interjections, the opposition might start by doing the solid disciplined work that it needs to do if it is ever to pretend to be the alternative government of this state. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I assume that the Treasurer is reading from an official document. I have great interest in the laser comments that he has attributed to me. I do not know where they could be from. If it is an official document, I ask him to table it. The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : If it is an official document, it should be tabled. If it is not, it should not. Is it an official document? Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I do not have an official document in front of me. The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
The SPEAKER : Members may for some reason think that that is amusing. Most ministers who have been here for longer than a minute and a half would not bring an official document into this chamber and quote from it. I thought the member for Cottesloe, who is most vociferous, would know that.
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