❓ Mr. Rundle questions the Premier about the future of the Centre for National Resilience in Bullsbrook after current management arrangements end. The Premier states it will revert to Commonwealth responsibility and dismisses suggestions of using it for housing the homeless.
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CENTRE
FOR NATIONAL RESILIENCE — BULLSBROOK
337. Mr P.J. RUNDLE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
What does the Premier predict will happen to the centre after September this
year when the management arrangements come to a close, potentially?
FOR NATIONAL RESILIENCE — BULLSBROOK
337. Mr P.J. RUNDLE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
What does the Premier predict will happen to the centre after September this
year when the management arrangements come to a close, potentially?
AnswerView source ↗
It will go back to the commonwealth.
There are different levels of government in Australia. It will become its
responsibility. I am not responsible for what the commonwealth does.
Mr P.J. Rundle : Will the
Premier keep searching for uses?
Mr M. McGOWAN : If it asks us
to look around for people to use it, we might be able to do that. I see the
letters to the editor and so forth, ''Put all the homeless there'',
as though we should get every homeless person in Western Australia and put them
on a bus, transport them out into the middle of the bush an hour out of Perth
and put them into a facility that is not designed for that purpose.
Ms M.J. Davies interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please!
Mr M. McGOWAN : It would be a disaster.
It will not work. Members opposite just need to have people with common sense
who will understand that. Ask people at any of the homeless services and they
will tell the member that. It will not work
in that environment in that location. That is just the reality. Members
opposite have to be really naive to think that that would work. Sadly,
the opposition is not very worldly-wise and it does not really understand how
things work. That is the reality if we tried to use it for those purposes.
There are different levels of government in Australia. It will become its
responsibility. I am not responsible for what the commonwealth does.
Mr P.J. Rundle : Will the
Premier keep searching for uses?
Mr M. McGOWAN : If it asks us
to look around for people to use it, we might be able to do that. I see the
letters to the editor and so forth, ''Put all the homeless there'',
as though we should get every homeless person in Western Australia and put them
on a bus, transport them out into the middle of the bush an hour out of Perth
and put them into a facility that is not designed for that purpose.
Ms M.J. Davies interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please!
Mr M. McGOWAN : It would be a disaster.
It will not work. Members opposite just need to have people with common sense
who will understand that. Ask people at any of the homeless services and they
will tell the member that. It will not work
in that environment in that location. That is just the reality. Members
opposite have to be really naive to think that that would work. Sadly,
the opposition is not very worldly-wise and it does not really understand how
things work. That is the reality if we tried to use it for those purposes.
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