❓ Debate regarding the WA government's plan for the Busselton foreshore and jetty, including accusations of conflicts of interest against the member for Vasse due to his tourism businesses.
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BUSSELTON FORESHORE
The minister has outlined the state government’s plan for the Busselton jetty and foreshore. Is he aware of any other proposals for the area? Mr M. McGOWAN
The minister has outlined the state government’s plan for the Busselton jetty and foreshore. Is he aware of any other proposals for the area? Mr M. McGOWAN
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I thank the member for Albany for the question. Members have heard that the government has some very interesting, exciting and innovative plans for additional tourism jobs and investment in Busselton. Our plans involve some land development on which will be created restaurants and tourism businesses - hotels and cafes - some accommodation, improved playground facilities, parks and, indeed, improved car parks for the people of Busselton. This will ensure that the proceeds of that development, up to $50 million, will go back into that community, including repairing the Busselton jetty. I am aware the member for Vasse opposes these plans. He opposes jobs and investment in his electorate. It is hard to believe any member in this house would do that, but the member for Vasse does. Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Albany for the question. Members have heard that the government has some very interesting, exciting and innovative plans for additional tourism jobs and investment in Busselton. Our plans involve some land development on which will be created restaurants and tourism businesses - hotels and cafes - some accommodation, improved playground facilities, parks and, indeed, improved car parks for the people of Busselton. This will ensure that the proceeds of that development, up to $50 million, will go back into that community, including repairing the Busselton jetty. I am aware the member for Vasse opposes these plans. He opposes jobs and investment in his electorate. It is hard to believe any member in this house would do that, but the member for Vasse does. Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
I thank the member for Albany for the question. Members have heard that the government has some very interesting, exciting and innovative plans for additional tourism jobs and investment in Busselton. Our plans involve some land development on which will be created restaurants and tourism businesses - hotels and cafes - some accommodation, improved playground facilities, parks and, indeed, improved car parks for the people of Busselton. This will ensure that the proceeds of that development, up to $50 million, will go back into that community, including repairing the Busselton jetty. I am aware the member for Vasse opposes these plans. He opposes jobs and investment in his electorate. It is hard to believe any member in this house would do that, but the member for Vasse does. Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
I am aware the member for Vasse opposes these plans. He opposes jobs and investment in his electorate. It is hard to believe any member in this house would do that, but the member for Vasse does. Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for Albany for the question. Members have heard that the government has some very interesting, exciting and innovative plans for additional tourism jobs and investment in Busselton. Our plans involve some land development on which will be created restaurants and tourism businesses - hotels and cafes - some accommodation, improved playground facilities, parks and, indeed, improved car parks for the people of Busselton. This will ensure that the proceeds of that development, up to $50 million, will go back into that community, including repairing the Busselton jetty. I am aware the member for Vasse opposes these plans. He opposes jobs and investment in his electorate. It is hard to believe any member in this house would do that, but the member for Vasse does. Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
I thank the member for Albany for the question. Members have heard that the government has some very interesting, exciting and innovative plans for additional tourism jobs and investment in Busselton. Our plans involve some land development on which will be created restaurants and tourism businesses - hotels and cafes - some accommodation, improved playground facilities, parks and, indeed, improved car parks for the people of Busselton. This will ensure that the proceeds of that development, up to $50 million, will go back into that community, including repairing the Busselton jetty. I am aware the member for Vasse opposes these plans. He opposes jobs and investment in his electorate. It is hard to believe any member in this house would do that, but the member for Vasse does. Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
I am aware the member for Vasse opposes these plans. He opposes jobs and investment in his electorate. It is hard to believe any member in this house would do that, but the member for Vasse does. Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr R.C. Kucera : Does he like Birney? Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He does not like Birney. The member for Vasse put out a press release the day before yesterday attacking the government’s proposals. I have a copy of that press release in my hand. It is obvious he opposes this plan for jobs and investment in his electorate, without even having a briefing on the issue. He has been offered a couple of briefings. It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
It gets a little bit more interesting because as it turns out there is a rival proposal out there associated with some private developers who are friends of Noel Crichton-Browne. Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : Before you go on, I actually agree with the headline in the paper that you have in your hand. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for Vasse has not said whether he is opposed to their development. Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : Of course I am. Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member is opposed to that development. Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : That development is worse than yours. It involves nonsense people. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : That is good to know - nonsense people. Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : I agree with the headline and what the former Labor candidate for Vasse, Ross Bromell, said. He is exactly right. I do not have a problem with that. Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : That is interesting. It begs the question - Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : They want to build a six-star hotel on the end of the jetty like the one in Qatar. It is madness. I agree with you for once and I am right behind you, minister. Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Remember the rooster affair. We have the bantam here who was right behind the member for Kalgoorlie. Members know what happens to bantams. They are the first in the coop to go into the pot. They are the ones that are most exuberant and are forever blowing their trumpet around the henhouse. They go into the pot first. I digressed. I come back to the issue at hand. I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
I am a little perplexed as to why the member for Vasse opposes the government’s proposal. As it turns out, the member for Vasse runs rival tourism businesses to the ones proposed for the foreshore. The member for Vasse is the director of five companies that run tourism businesses in Busselton - five! I would have thought that being Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a member of Parliament would be enough. He has a good income, including an extra 50 grand or so a year as deputy leader. He has a good job, but he finds it necessary to run separate businesses while being a member of Parliament. The government does not do that; we acknowledge that as cabinet ministers we should not do that. The government acknowledges that and accepts its responsibility. The member for Vasse opposes - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He runs rival tourism businesses to the businesses proposed by the government. Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr T. Buswell : Which ones? If you want to make a statement like that, you tell me which ones. Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, the member for Vasse is a little sensitive. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : As I said, the government has proposed tourism businesses in Busselton. The member for Vasse runs tourism businesses. If he cannot see that there is a slight conflict of interest there, I cannot actually help him. The member for Vasse has a problem with rivals; we have learnt that he does not like rival tourism businesses. He has a problem with rivals, as we learnt on Sunday when we discovered what he had to say to his rival the member for Kalgoorlie. The Red Rooster affair happened, and the member for Kalgoorlie gave him some advice. According to an article published in the Sunday Times on 24 August, the member for Kalgoorlie advised the member for Vasse - If you want to walk down both sides of the road, you are eventually going to get hit by a bus coming in one direction or the other. That reminds me of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s great piece of advice: if you walk along a barbed wire fence with one foot on either side, you are going to get into trouble. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
The SPEAKER : Members! Question time is dragging on primarily because of interjections from both sides of the house, which may be funny at times, but which are unnecessary. Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I think the member for Kalgoorlie was trying to advise the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to try to be loyal to his leader. Unfortunately, he did not heed that advice. We learnt yesterday that on 1 August, he was asked about his leadership aspirations - whether he would challenge or take over the leadership from the member for Warren-Blackwood. According to an article posted on the ABC News website on 1 August 2007, his answer was - I’m about dealing with the facts OK and the facts are that Paul Omodei is the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party . . . Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
Mr M. McGOWAN : No; yesterday’s answer was that it was the member for Vasse’s view that Paul Omodei was leader. The guy does not learn. He discourages rival businesses and he undermines every rival in the Liberal Party.
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