❓ The question asks the Premier to concede that delaying the reversal of a regional migration status decision negatively impacts the state economy. The Premier's response deflects, focusing on the previous government's economic performance and defending their own.
AnsweredQoN 932Legislative Assembly
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REGIONAL MIGRATION STATUS
932. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. I will
be glad to hear about something in the future. Does the Premier concede that
for every month he delays reversing the regional migration status decision the
state economy suffers?
932. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. I will
be glad to hear about something in the future. Does the Premier concede that
for every month he delays reversing the regional migration status decision the
state economy suffers?
AnswerView source ↗
Since
we have be in office, more than 50 000 jobs have been created. The previous
government's term of office drove the state into the only recession in
history. As I said before, it drove debt above $40 billion. It had spend
tracking on average each year at 6.7 per cent. As the Treasurer outlined last
week, in the previous government's first two years in office, spend
went up 26 per cent. In our first two years in office it went up 4.5 per cent.
The previous government blew the finances, drove the state into recession, put
up land tax three times, lost the credit rating, had investors and business up
in arms with its management of the state's economy and its cavalier use
of state finances, and members opposite come in here as though none of
that ever happened. We finally have a government in Western Australia with
grownups in charge, and members opposite complain like a group of naughty
schoolkids. They are a group of naughty schoolkids who do not deserve to come
back into office. All their announcements today are not worth the paper they
are written on, because we saw its record when it was in office. The people of Western
Australia should understand that if the Liberals and Nationals come back to
office in this state, it will be bad for the state's economy and it
will be bad for the state's finances, because its record is there and
it has never owned up to it.
we have be in office, more than 50 000 jobs have been created. The previous
government's term of office drove the state into the only recession in
history. As I said before, it drove debt above $40 billion. It had spend
tracking on average each year at 6.7 per cent. As the Treasurer outlined last
week, in the previous government's first two years in office, spend
went up 26 per cent. In our first two years in office it went up 4.5 per cent.
The previous government blew the finances, drove the state into recession, put
up land tax three times, lost the credit rating, had investors and business up
in arms with its management of the state's economy and its cavalier use
of state finances, and members opposite come in here as though none of
that ever happened. We finally have a government in Western Australia with
grownups in charge, and members opposite complain like a group of naughty
schoolkids. They are a group of naughty schoolkids who do not deserve to come
back into office. All their announcements today are not worth the paper they
are written on, because we saw its record when it was in office. The people of Western
Australia should understand that if the Liberals and Nationals come back to
office in this state, it will be bad for the state's economy and it
will be bad for the state's finances, because its record is there and
it has never owned up to it.
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