October 2020

How is it that there is enough money to run a $1.2 billion dollar surplus, give every household a $600 credit on their power bills, employ 800 more cops (when crime has been tracking down for years!), increase state debt by another $4 billion to a record $40 billion and roll out a $27 billion dollar infrastructure program and yet allocate almost nothing towards major new projects to support either what’s left of the old

The deafening silence coming from the four upper house National MPs during the heated debate on the Industrial Manslaughter Bill last week should have sent signals to the Liberals, One Nation and Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MPs that something was not quite right. For months industry peak bodies including WAFarmers, PGA, Master Builders, Electrical Contractor  and Transport operators had been working with some of the State’s best lawyers in an attempt to amend the State

One has to be suspicious of a government that deviously packages up two completely different parliamentary Bills into one, in an attempt to wedge their way through parliament and into the law of the land. We have a glaring example of this currently in full swing with the Animal Welfare and Trespass Bill which according to the Attorney General John Quigley has been drafted in response to calls by farmers for tougher penalties against animal