❓ Opposition asks when the Premier will reinstate a jobs target post-COVID, given WA's success in keeping COVID out. The Premier deflects, attacking the Liberal Party's COVID response and lack of policies.
AnsweredQoN 971Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
CORONAVIRUS — JOBS
971. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Given that WA ''has
kept COVID out'', when will the Premier reinstate a jobs target and join
the Liberals in ensuring that there is a clear plan for the economy following
the COVID-19 crisis?
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
971. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Given that WA ''has
kept COVID out'', when will the Premier reinstate a jobs target and join
the Liberals in ensuring that there is a clear plan for the economy following
the COVID-19 crisis?
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
AnswerView source ↗
I remind the house that the only reason that we kept COVID
out is the policies that we put in place, which the Liberal Party opposed. The
Liberal Party has been disgraceful over the last 10 months. It undermined
everything that we tried to do. The health
minister and I went through sleepless nights and high stress in extreme
circumstances fighting to keep this state safe and strong, and all the
Liberal Party did was undermine us and complain the whole way along. All the
Liberal Party did was demand that we bring down the hard border at the height
of the pandemic and then, as we know, it went out there and backed Clive Palmer
in his High Court case to bring down the borders. The record is there. The Liberal
Party cannot run away from its record of trying to undermine everything that we
did to keep this state safe and strong. Without a shadow cabinet, how does the
Liberal Party have a target? Without any policies, how does the Liberal Party
have a target? It does not have any policies and it does not have a shadow
cabinet, and it is only three months until the state election. We do not have a
shadow cabinet and the opposition admits
that it has no policies. A slogan is not a policy. The opposition needs to come
up with some policies. It needs to ensure—in fact, I do not
think that it can do this because it does not have a shadow cabinet—that
it tries to give the people of Western Australia a little confidence that it
knows what it is doing.
out is the policies that we put in place, which the Liberal Party opposed. The
Liberal Party has been disgraceful over the last 10 months. It undermined
everything that we tried to do. The health
minister and I went through sleepless nights and high stress in extreme
circumstances fighting to keep this state safe and strong, and all the
Liberal Party did was undermine us and complain the whole way along. All the
Liberal Party did was demand that we bring down the hard border at the height
of the pandemic and then, as we know, it went out there and backed Clive Palmer
in his High Court case to bring down the borders. The record is there. The Liberal
Party cannot run away from its record of trying to undermine everything that we
did to keep this state safe and strong. Without a shadow cabinet, how does the
Liberal Party have a target? Without any policies, how does the Liberal Party
have a target? It does not have any policies and it does not have a shadow
cabinet, and it is only three months until the state election. We do not have a
shadow cabinet and the opposition admits
that it has no policies. A slogan is not a policy. The opposition needs to come
up with some policies. It needs to ensure—in fact, I do not
think that it can do this because it does not have a shadow cabinet—that
it tries to give the people of Western Australia a little confidence that it
knows what it is doing.
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