❓ The Acting Premier defends the government's public sector management by highlighting budget surpluses, AAA credit rating, and infrastructure investment, while contrasting it with the previous government's deficits. He also outlines a system of functional reviews of government agencies.
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PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT
What benefits will flow to the people of Western Australia from the Carpenter government’s approach to public sector management? Mr E.S. RIPPER
What benefits will flow to the people of Western Australia from the Carpenter government’s approach to public sector management? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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The Carpenter government, like the Gallop government, is committed to sound financial management. Year after year we have retained the state’s AAA credit rating. Year after year we have delivered strong budget surpluses, and we are using those surpluses to build the infrastructure that people need. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: The Carpenter government, like the Gallop government, is committed to sound financial management. Year after year we have retained the state’s AAA credit rating. Year after year we have delivered strong budget surpluses, and we are using those surpluses to build the infrastructure that people need. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The Carpenter government, like the Gallop government, is committed to sound financial management. Year after year we have retained the state’s AAA credit rating. Year after year we have delivered strong budget surpluses, and we are using those surpluses to build the infrastructure that people need. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: The Carpenter government, like the Gallop government, is committed to sound financial management. Year after year we have retained the state’s AAA credit rating. Year after year we have delivered strong budget surpluses, and we are using those surpluses to build the infrastructure that people need. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The Carpenter government, like the Gallop government, is committed to sound financial management. Year after year we have retained the state’s AAA credit rating. Year after year we have delivered strong budget surpluses, and we are using those surpluses to build the infrastructure that people need. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The SPEAKER : I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order for the first time. Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr P.D. Omodei : You lost it in the first place. The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The SPEAKER : Order, Leader of the Opposition! Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The Leader of the Opposition should go back and look at the commentary of Alan Wood when the Leader of the Opposition was in the cabinet. He described the Court government as disappearing into a sea of red ink. That is what Alan Wood said about the Leader of the Opposition’s government. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition provided any financial management strength at all in that government. I think I need to show the chart again. Members will see the five budget deficits out of eight. That was the coalition’s record of financial management, and it put the credit rating of the state at risk. If members opposite do not believe the charts, they should look at the headlines at the time, which refer to a cash spree and Court splashing out $1 billion, and to the WA budget sliding $443 million into the red. What has changed is that we deliver strong budget surpluses; we do not deliver budget deficits. I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
I notice a fair amount of interjecting by the member for Vasse. I have some good news for him. I understand that members might be aware of the re-emergence of the gospel of Judas. That is a story that should give the member for Vasse some hope. The gospel of Judas is helping to rehabilitate that man. Perhaps in a thousand years the member for Vasse might be remembered as a hero, and not as a villain. Maybe in 2 000 years even the member for Hillarys might have forgiven the member for Vasse. Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Let us look at the performance of the Leader of the Opposition. He leads a team that signed up to the canal plan, at whatever the cost, and now the man who is the champion of the canal plan is not their leader but their mentor. Does “mentor” mean leader in waiting? Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Several members interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : I think it does. If that were to come about, we will have to get out the charts that talk about the Barnett budget blow-out over and over again. Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Currently, the shadow Treasurer is the member for Vasse. When he was the president of the Shire of Busselton, that council’s rates increased by 15 per cent over two years and its consultancy expenditure jumped 857 per cent. His presidency of the Shire of Busselton will be like Mark Latham’s presidency of the Liverpool council. I will get away from this banter with the opposition because I want to talk about how we will implement a system of functional reviews. The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the Leader of the National Party and the member for Dawesville. Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
Mr E.S. RIPPER : The system of functional reviews of government agencies will be carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the machinery of government review in 2001 and the functional review in 2002. We have instituted new guidelines for public sector reviews and evaluations. The guidelines describe a more systematic and targeted approach to reviews. We have a centrally organised program of reviews that has already started - it commenced last year. The Western Australian Sports Centre Trust and the Department of Indigenous Affairs are the first agencies to be reviewed. The review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs is now well under way. Dr Dawn Casey was appointed last year to undertake that review. I thank my colleague the Minister for Culture and the Arts for releasing Dr Casey to undertake this task. Members of Parliament and the public have a right to take part in this review. Submissions were advertised on Saturday. I encourage all Western Australians to participate in the review of the Department of Indigenous Affairs. I ask all members of Parliament to get behind the system of functional reviews so that we can get more effective service delivery and better value for taxpayers out of our government agencies.
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