❓ The Leader of the Opposition asks about the impact of federal budget cuts on WA's health and education funding. The Premier avoids a direct answer, criticising the Opposition's understanding of federal-state financial relations and referencing past COAG meetings.
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EDUCATION — COMMONWEALTH BUDGET 2015–16
— TREASURY ANALYSIS
369. Mr M. McGOWAN to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. In
yesterday's commonwealth budget, the total cuts to health and education
funding to Western Australia were $850 million. What is the additional funding
cut as part of the $80 billion worth of federal cuts up until 2024? Will the
Premier reveal that today, or not?
— TREASURY ANALYSIS
369. Mr M. McGOWAN to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. In
yesterday's commonwealth budget, the total cuts to health and education
funding to Western Australia were $850 million. What is the additional funding
cut as part of the $80 billion worth of federal cuts up until 2024? Will the
Premier reveal that today, or not?
AnswerView source ↗
I imagine the Leader of the
Opposition has been talking to the likes of Jay Weatherill from South
Australia.
Mr
M. McGowan : I have never met him; never spoken to him.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what happens at
Council of Australian Governments' meetings because he has never been
to one, and he probably never will go to one —
Several members interjected.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : It is the truth. Calm down! When Julia Gillard was Prime
Minister during the chaos of the Rudd–Gillard–Rudd years there
was a COAG meeting where there were all these little side meetings with New South
Wales, Queensland and South Australia. Like fairies dancing around the table,
they were all boasting about how much money they got. I was there throughout
that meeting. Anyone who seriously believed that the commonwealth was going to
produce another $80 billion for the states across health and education had to
be naive. That deal lasted less than two years, and the Leader of the
Opposition and the Jay Weatherills of this world are still banging on it about
it.
Opposition has been talking to the likes of Jay Weatherill from South
Australia.
Mr
M. McGowan : I have never met him; never spoken to him.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : I will tell the Leader of the Opposition what happens at
Council of Australian Governments' meetings because he has never been
to one, and he probably never will go to one —
Several members interjected.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : It is the truth. Calm down! When Julia Gillard was Prime
Minister during the chaos of the Rudd–Gillard–Rudd years there
was a COAG meeting where there were all these little side meetings with New South
Wales, Queensland and South Australia. Like fairies dancing around the table,
they were all boasting about how much money they got. I was there throughout
that meeting. Anyone who seriously believed that the commonwealth was going to
produce another $80 billion for the states across health and education had to
be naive. That deal lasted less than two years, and the Leader of the
Opposition and the Jay Weatherills of this world are still banging on it about
it.
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