❓ Question regarding the state government's plan to transform Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities, specifically focusing on the Karratha development and the search for a leading developer. The Minister outlines the government's vision and announces a nationwide search for a developer.
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PILBARA CITIES — LEADING DEVELOPER
Minister, the state government — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, member for North West. Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS
Minister, the state government — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, member for North West. Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS
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Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, member for North West. Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Take a seat, member for North West. Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Take a seat, member for North West. Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Take a seat, member for North West. Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr V.A. CATANIA : The state government’s Pilbara Cities vision is set to transform the Northwest, turning Karratha and Port Hedland into vibrant cities. Will the minister outline to the house how this government is driving this landmark project for the coastal community of Karratha? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Mindarie and the member for Girrawheen. Now I would like to hear from the Minister for Regional Development. Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS replied: Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr Speaker, before I respond to the member for North West’s question, I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of Trent Rivers who is down from Halls Creek today, taking a very keen interest in the developments and improvements proposed for the Halls Creek community. I congratulate him on his new job at Rio Tinto, which he will move to soon. Well done, Trent. The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The Pilbara Cities vision is very exciting and no-one more was more excited than the member for Pilbara over the last couple of weeks as he showed the cabinet of Western Australia around Karratha and across the Pilbara as the unique and probably once in a hundred year transformation of the Pilbara takes place before the eyes of the people. I encourage all members of Parliament who have not been to Karratha in the last six months or so to make it an important event to get up there to see what is happening. It is the resource house of, almost, the world and hopefully the government can develop the community in and around that area in a similar way. Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Today, the Liberal–National government is pleased to announce a nationwide search for a leading developer to take on the landmark project of developing Karratha into a city of the north. The project is integral to Karratha’s transformation from town to city. Currently, there are around 18 000 people in Karratha and as everyone knows many are fly in, fly out workers. We hope the government can put in place the fundamentals to grow Karratha to a city of 50 000 people. The project will include the first ever development of residential land close to the coast in Karratha, with a beautiful outlook over Nickol Bay. That land will be open for development by a preferred proponent. As well, that opportunity will be coupled with the opportunity to develop five parcels of land in the town centre. This large-scale development opportunity will result in a revitalisation of the city centre. Those who have been there know that the city centre of Karratha is essentially built around the shopping centre complex, which is four walls and a big car park. We want to turn that into a modern, vibrant boulevard, and some of the initial conceptual drawings are very exciting. The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The development of the coastal area down towards Nickol Bay, known as Mulataga, will start with a 2 500-people subdivision, and will have the opportunity for high-density living into the future, and, I hope that we might see the waterfront area developed in the same way as the Darwin foreshore has been developed. The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The successful developer will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Karratha with developments that will attract international attention. We are looking for a developer with the ability to deliver a vibrant and attractive city centre as well as a high-quality waterfront estate that will include cafes, tourism and shopping precincts and a variety of residential properties and recreational facilities. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I have been going for three minutes. The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The five parcels of land in the heart of Karratha will provide a medium-density, mixed-use opportunity — Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr T.G. Stephens : Mixed-use opportunity for commercial, retail and entertainment outlets with residential apartments— Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : That is right. Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr T.G. Stephens : —for short-term accommodation. The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Take your seat, minister. Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Presumably some people in this place want the opportunity to ask questions; I am just making that presumption. Member for Pilbara, I formally call you to order for the third time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : The one difference between the member for Pilbara and me is that when he was a minister, he did not do this. Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : When he was a minister, he did not do it. He is from this part of the world—allegedly! He had the opportunity to do and did not do it. This government is doing it. And I am not reading that off the press release! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : I formally call to order the member for Warnbro and likewise the member for Cannington for the first time. Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr W.J. Johnston : You must be very proud! A fly in, fly out release. That is your answer. The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Member for Cannington, I formally call you to order for the second time today. Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr B.J. GRYLLS : I know of the enormous amount of pain it causes those opposite that it took a Liberal–National government to focus on development in the Pilbara. If members opposite want to know why it is fly in, fly out, it was what they did when — Point of Order Mr M.W. SUTHERLAND : Mr Speaker, I cannot hear a thing! Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, further to the point of order, you have stood a number of times and asked members to remain silent, but when the Minister for Regional Development abuses members on this side of the house on two or three separate occasions, you can expect there to be noise. All I ask is that, under standing order 78, he answer the question he was asked! The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : Member for Rockingham, I will ask you to repeat those points of order because members to my right were yelling and I was not able to hear what you were saying. Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Standing order 78—relevance, Mr Speaker. If the minister is going to segue away from the question he was asked and start abusing members on this side of the house, there will naturally be a response. All I am suggesting to you, Mr Speaker, is that the minister should be requested to actually stick to the question rather than proceed in that way. The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
The SPEAKER : I will hope that the minister sticks to the question. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr B.J. GRYLLS : Today we announced the opening of expressions of interest from major developers. Stockland and Delfin Lend Lease are doing the Alkimos development; Mirvac Fini, Grocon and other major developers across the nation are putting their focus, energies and innovation into the Pilbara so that the Pilbara town of Karratha can grow and develop and we will not have what members opposite have talked about, which is a city of fly in, fly out workers, no services, no infrastructure and no heart. The Liberal–National government is building a city with a heart in the north west; it has taken far too long. If this work had started under the previous government, we would be so much closer to achieving a city of the north. We have started it now; the Premier and I were up there at the end of last year announcing this, and now, before the end of this year, we are out in the market, calling on private developers to partner with the state government to deliver a city of the north. I know that this hurts the member for Pilbara greatly, but he will be very happy to know that the same process that we have undertaken in Karratha is underway in Port Hedland. We are going to go to Port Hedland and package the available land. We are going to look at the waterfront development and the Pretty Pool development. We are going to go to the market so that we can develop Port Hedland into a city of 50 000 and move away from a fly in, fly out population. We can move away from the benefits of that enormous industrial activity flowing back to the south of the state. This government is going to deliver cities of the north, and not before time.
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