❓ Question regarding the Commonwealth's handling of the BGC brickworks proposal at Perth Airport, criticising the lack of transparency compared to state processes and alleging potential approval of an outdated plant.
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AIRPORT LAND - PROPOSED BRICKWORKS
I understand that there have been developments concerning the approval of the brickworks site at Perth airport. Can the minister please advise where the commonwealth process is at? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
I understand that there have been developments concerning the approval of the brickworks site at Perth airport. Can the minister please advise where the commonwealth process is at? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. I acknowledge the role that has been played in this by so many local members. They include the members for Swan Hills, Midland and Belmont. The federal member has no luck; he has certainly been dealt a very bad hand by his federal colleagues. We now know that the federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage has made his report on the environmental assessment of the BGC brickworks proposal. However, we do not know what is in it because he and the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Hon Warren Truss, have made it very clear that it is a secret report and that the report will not be made public. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I acknowledge the role that has been played in this by so many local members. They include the members for Swan Hills, Midland and Belmont. The federal member has no luck; he has certainly been dealt a very bad hand by his federal colleagues. We now know that the federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage has made his report on the environmental assessment of the BGC brickworks proposal. However, we do not know what is in it because he and the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Hon Warren Truss, have made it very clear that it is a secret report and that the report will not be made public. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I acknowledge the role that has been played in this by so many local members. They include the members for Swan Hills, Midland and Belmont. The federal member has no luck; he has certainly been dealt a very bad hand by his federal colleagues. We now know that the federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage has made his report on the environmental assessment of the BGC brickworks proposal. However, we do not know what is in it because he and the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Hon Warren Truss, have made it very clear that it is a secret report and that the report will not be made public. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
We now know that the federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage has made his report on the environmental assessment of the BGC brickworks proposal. However, we do not know what is in it because he and the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Hon Warren Truss, have made it very clear that it is a secret report and that the report will not be made public. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I acknowledge the role that has been played in this by so many local members. They include the members for Swan Hills, Midland and Belmont. The federal member has no luck; he has certainly been dealt a very bad hand by his federal colleagues. We now know that the federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage has made his report on the environmental assessment of the BGC brickworks proposal. However, we do not know what is in it because he and the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Hon Warren Truss, have made it very clear that it is a secret report and that the report will not be made public. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I acknowledge the role that has been played in this by so many local members. They include the members for Swan Hills, Midland and Belmont. The federal member has no luck; he has certainly been dealt a very bad hand by his federal colleagues. We now know that the federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage has made his report on the environmental assessment of the BGC brickworks proposal. However, we do not know what is in it because he and the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Hon Warren Truss, have made it very clear that it is a secret report and that the report will not be made public. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
We now know that the federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage has made his report on the environmental assessment of the BGC brickworks proposal. However, we do not know what is in it because he and the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Hon Warren Truss, have made it very clear that it is a secret report and that the report will not be made public. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I want to contrast that with the hypothetical situation in which the application related to a brickworks site across the road and outside airport land. What would have happened? We would have had an assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority. The assessment would have led to a published report and a published bulletin of recommendations. Those would have then been subject to an appeals process. It would then have been subject to an examination by the Appeals Convener. It would then have gone to our esteemed Minister for the Environment, and a public decision on the matter would have been made. However, because the proposal is on commonwealth land, we do not even know the attitude to the application taken by the commonwealth. All the feedback and the vibes we are getting from the federal ministers indicate that the second-hand East German plant, which may be 15 years old, has captured their imagination. It appears that the application will most likely be approved. Another aspect of this - Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We can see who has been funding the opposition’s 500 Club. Another matter of great concern is that there is limited capacity for the commonwealth to enforce any conditions that are put on it. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is good to see Lenny’s little boys doing his bidding. We have this nice second-hand plant from East Germany. We on this side of the house are obviously concerned that the opposition, if it got into government, would race off to the Ukraine and buy a second-hand nuclear plant and try to put it on defence land in Bullsbrook. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Vasse and Cottesloe to order for the second time.
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