❓ Question on Notice regarding state utilities dividends and electricity price increases for Western Australian families. The Treasurer assures that increases will be modest, while dismissing opposition criticisms and defending the government's fiscal policy.
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STATE UTILITIES — DIVIDENDS
I have a supplementary question. Ahead of tomorrow’s state budget, can the Treasurer give any comfort whatsoever to ordinary Western Australian families struggling to pay their household bills? Mr C.C. PORTER
I have a supplementary question. Ahead of tomorrow’s state budget, can the Treasurer give any comfort whatsoever to ordinary Western Australian families struggling to pay their household bills? Mr C.C. PORTER
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I can give those ordinary families comfort, because the price increases for electricity in this year’s budget will be very modest. Mr M. McGowan : You’ve met the hairdresser. Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
Mr C.C. PORTER replied: I can give those ordinary families comfort, because the price increases for electricity in this year’s budget will be very modest. Mr M. McGowan : You’ve met the hairdresser. Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
I can give those ordinary families comfort, because the price increases for electricity in this year’s budget will be very modest. Mr M. McGowan : You’ve met the hairdresser. Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
Mr M. McGowan : You’ve met the hairdresser. Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
Mr C.C. PORTER replied: I can give those ordinary families comfort, because the price increases for electricity in this year’s budget will be very modest. Mr M. McGowan : You’ve met the hairdresser. Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
I can give those ordinary families comfort, because the price increases for electricity in this year’s budget will be very modest. Mr M. McGowan : You’ve met the hairdresser. Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
Mr M. McGowan : You’ve met the hairdresser. Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
Mr C.C. PORTER : The hairdresser? Is that the best those opposite can do? They have had all this time to come up with the hair jokes. I had a good friend from school text me and say, “Mate, if there’s something wrong with your bouffant, I can come over and fix the do with a Wahl.” I do not even know what that means, but I think it is funny, but that is the best they can do in a couple of months. What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
What those opposite are doing is heading us towards even greater debt than the level that they say is too much. The increases will be very modest. However, those same ordinary families were calling into the radio station about the idea of a freeze, saying, “We know that is too good to be true”, because ordinary people are not stupid, and they know that the opposition’s policy about a freeze is.
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