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Reply #61 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 10:30am
 
Commo union controlled WA Labor will now show they are even worse economic managers than the Libs were.

Standard unemployment tactics of bloating the public service and creating permanent jobs on Centrelink will figure large as unemployment soars under WA Labor mad union incompetence.

WA will rue the day they foolishly voted in the Commo unions.






McGowan to feel his financial impotence
Ben Harvey, Comment Monday, 13 March 2017 3:10AM

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Mark McGowan chats to workers while on the campaign trail at Civmec in Henderson.Picture: Picture: Danella Bevis

After years of blaming Colin Barnett for WA’s recent economic malaise, Mark McGowan is about to learn how impotent he is to effect change.

Mr McGowan, like his predecessors, will discover that WA’s economic fortunes are determined in Tokyo and Beijing. And those fortunes are influenced by decisions made in Washington and Brussels.

The incoming Labor government does not have the financial reserves for a Building the Education Revolution-style fiscal stimulus package to prop up business.

The plan to build rail cars in WA will not soak up the workers who will soon down tools on government projects such as the stadium and children’s hospital. Metronet, if it ever happens, will not make up for the economic slack caused by scrapping the Perth Freight Link.

All the new premier can do is tinker at the edges by adjusting policy settings to make it easier for business to get on with the job of creating wealth.

When done right, policy change can make a real difference. Mr McGowan saw that first hand in the previous Labor government when he created laws allowing small bars. His well-crafted legislation created a vibrant industry employing thousands of people. But such policy gems are rare.

Ensuring local companies get a bigger share of government projects is a difficult policy to enforce. And proponents of old-school protectionism — the policy du jour around the world at the moment — forget that it means the goods and services procured are more expensive.

Supporting WA’s emerging defence industry sounds great but the reality is multibillion-dollar military contracts are shaped by geo-political forces which State governments are almost powerless to influence.

The one policy change that could shake WA business out of its malaise is overhauling payroll tax. Literally a job-killer, this tax is a cancer for business. But it is so lucrative for Treasury that few believe anything meaningful will change.

It is true that Mr McGowan cannot afford to lose a cent in revenue. But balancing the Budget should not come at any cost. Reducing the payroll tax burden would be the State equivalent of Reaganomics — cutting personal income tax to stimulate consumer spending.

Accepting short-term revenue pain for the long-term economic growth which would eventually create a bigger tax base would be a courageous political decision.

It is something Mr McGowan should put his mind to.

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Reply #64 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 11:33am
 
WA Labor is at the highest point right now and will now start the inevitable slide downhill to losing the next election.

And the Libs will then clean up.





McGowan’s feat huge ... so is the challenge
Paul Murray , Comment Monday, 13 March 2017 11:19AM

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Labor leader Mark McGowan celebrates his election win with his family.Picture: Daniel Wilkins

Mark McGowan didn’t just scale Everest, he jumped right over the top of it.

Having used the mountaineering analogy to describe the task of winning 10 seats to take government, he has conquered at least 18, maybe more.

It is impossible to overestimate the scale of McGowan’s achievement. Or the size of the job ahead of him.

McGowan routed one of WA’s most substantial leaders, stared down a reborn charlatan who threatened to disrupt the result and pulled on the most daunting fiscal challenge that has ever faced a WA premier.

The anti-Labor wave that rushed in from Canberra and washed away his hopes four years ago came back with such force that it will give him far more backbenchers than ministers, a political problem in itself that further exposes an unaligned leader to factional infighting.

The Liberals will be reduced to little more than a rump for a term, mirroring the Queensland experience I predicted over a year ago.

VIDEO: Mark McGowan makes his victory speech after a landslide win for Labor.


The party will face something like McGowan’s Everest to get back into power — but at least it knows it can be done in these volatile times.

Its relationship with the Nationals — if that is not too generous a description — is busted and will probably only have a chance of short-term repair if Brendon Grylls loses his seat.

For all the hyperventilation over the One Nation preference deal, it was simply about beating Labor from a primary vote around 30 per cent.

Moralising aside, that was little different from the Nationals’ repeated preferencing of the Greens for similar electoral ends.

However, it damaged both sides of the deal and has echoes of what happened to the Australian Democrats when they fatefully got into bed with John Howard’s Liberals over the GST.

You can’t keep the bastards honest when you’re sharing a pillow.

Pauline Hanson has proved once again that sustained exposure of her inadequacies, her party’s flaky platform and its rag-tag bunch of disaffected candidates will cause its support to unravel.

To get less than 5 per cent of the vote after the massive free publicity she attracted right through the campaign — and opinion poll highs around 15 per cent — is humiliating and suggests she has entered the burn-out phase already.


Having been bitten by the One Nation snake and then the Palmer United snake and then the Pauline Hanson One Nation snake again, where will the idiots go next?

The Greens failed to pick up any of the anti-Barnett vote, despite the Roe 8 hysteria they desperately tried to whip up, and are slowly being exposed as economic vandals.

Regardless of the make-up of the Legislative Council, McGowan has won the right to implement the agenda he took to the election. But his major immediate problems are not ones that need legislation.

The debt projections Labor unveiled last week were pathetic and cannot stand. It was an admission of failure.

McGowan is going to have to cut spending hard if he is not to preside over the mountain of debt about which he complained so vociferously blowing out to $50 billion within a few years.

The media focus on Labor’s costings was on the questionable pledge to get the Budget back into annual surplus by 2019-20, overshadowing that it admitted debt would still rise to more than $39 billion by then.

He has promised more jobs, but one of McGowan’s first duties will be to sack the workers on the Roe 8 project. He will then be expected to move on to the public service where he has promised savings of $750 million by letting 2500 go.

And he will have to take on the public sector unions over his promise to cut 100 places from the Senior Executive Service and then cut the pay of the remaining 400 by 20 per cent.

An early indicator of McGowan’s ability to stand up to the union bosses who control Labor’s factions will be in the make-up of his Cabinet.

It has to be cut from 20 in Opposition to 17, but needs to accommodate incoming MPs like Alannah MacTiernan and possibly the former head of the powerful Australian Workers Union, Stephen Price.

As for Colin Barnett, in the short term the focus on his legacy will be debt. It will eventually be seen differently because he has built public facilities of lasting benefit to the State.

Barnett was never a popular Premier but, thankfully, he was also never a populist.

His fiercely independent personality was neither aloof nor arrogant, but it meant he was an imperfect politician who too often took the harder road. His loyalty to people like Troy Buswell, and others, exposed his government to damage.

But he was incorruptible and decent, something that will become clearer and more important as the clouds of this political cyclone pass.


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Reply #65 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 11:37am
 
A very very very very long time in opposition juLiar
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Reply #66 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 11:41am
 
juliar wrote on Mar 13th, 2017 at 11:33am:
WA Labor is at the highest point right now and will now start the inevitable slide downhill to losing the next election.

And the Libs will then clean up.





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Reply #67 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 11:42am
 
You really seem to be struggling with your failed prediction juLiar , and it's only day two of mighty mcgowan
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Reply #68 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 11:50am
 
Its time wrote on Mar 13th, 2017 at 11:42am:
You really seem to be struggling with your failed prediction juLiar , and it's only day two of mighty mcgowan


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Reply #69 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 12:05pm
 
Let's hope the liberal lackeys at FWC have been given their redundancies and drop punted to the garbage tip with juLiars libtards and dumb nation this morning
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Reply #70 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 1:00pm
 
Lefties LW and Gecko are sounding more and more like broken records as they keep on repeating that they don't have a clue about the WA election.

But then they ARE Socialist indoctrinated Lefties who really only know how to deny and lie.

Back in WA the unemployment starts to rise as workers are SACKED from Roe 8 project!!!! Greenie triumph at stopping another development!!!! WA Labor sucking up to destructive greenies.



New WA Premier Mark McGowan tells Roe 8 workers not to turn up to work
Staff reporters and AAP Monday, 13 March 2017 12:25PM

VIDEO:New WA Premier Mark McGowan tells Roe 8 workers not to turn up to work


WA Premier-elect Mark McGowan is telling Roe 8 workers it would be futile to turn up today.

Axing the controversial Roe 8 project is on top of Labor’s to-do list after its thumping election win on the weekend.

“When we're sworn-in we'll confirm the decision not to proceed with Roe 8,” told 6PR’s Gareth Parker.
“I'm happy to go and speak to workers”.

In a separate interview on the ABC, McGowan said it would cost $30 million to get out of Roe 8 contracts.

VIDEO: He promised to rip up the controversial road project as soon as he got into power...it might not be that simple.


Meanwhile, Alannah MacTiernan says she’s had discussions with McGowan about a return to the ministry in an economic portfolio.

The former transport minister from the Gallop-Carpenter governments is returning to State politics in the upper house after a one-term stint in federal politics.

“We have quite clearly just become so totally reliant on the resource sector we need to do more to diversify the economy,” Ms MacTiernan told Nine this morning.

“I’m hoping that Mark will find me a role somewhere around that space.”

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Roe 8 workers in January.Picture: Danella Bevis /The West Australian

Mr McGowan has indicated he’ll have a big say in the makeup of his cabinet, which he has to reduce to 17 from the 20 that were on the opposition front bench.

With Ms MacTiernan’s return, at least four shadow ministers will miss out.

The announcement of the first WA Labor ministry since 2008 is expected at the end of the week.

Labor’s Ben Wyatt, a cousin of federal minister Ken Wyatt, will become Australia’s first indigenous treasurer.

https://thewest.com.au/politics/state-politics/new-wa-premier-mark-mcgowan-tells...
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Re: WA now faces union mad disaster like Qld & Vic
Reply #71 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 1:02pm
 
what happened juliar? you said the libs with one nation would win easily.

were you really stupid enough to believe that or was it just that you were being paid to say that?
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Reply #72 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 1:03pm
 
juliar wrote on Mar 13th, 2017 at 1:00pm:
Labor’s Ben Wyatt, a cousin of federal minister Ken Wyatt, will become Australia’s first indigenous treasurer.

https://thewest.com.au/politics/state-politics/new-wa-premier-mark-mcgowan-tells...


Nice work, Ben!

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Reply #73 - Mar 13th, 2017 at 1:24pm
 
And the Lefty broken records scratch on. They have not got a clue about the election and so they have a go at the poster who is revealing the FACTS which are anathema to TRUTH shunning Lefties.

But now already WA Labor is in funding trouble as the fed Govt pulls funding if Roe 8 stopped. Just like what happened in disaster state Victoria.




Federal Government hits back at McGowan’s pledge to scrap Roe 8
Gareth Parker, State Political Editor Wednesday, 4 January 2017 4:45PM

VIDEO: Federal Government hits back at McGowan’s pledge to scrap Roe 8


UPDATE: The Federal Government has vowed to pull $1.2 billion of funding if the Perth Freight Link does not proceed.

Announcing he would cancel Roe 8 and the Perth Freight Link if he was elected this morning, Opposition Leader Mark McGowan declared his intention to earmark $1.7 billion set aside for the project to other transport priorities.

But a spokesman for Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher said the funding could not be reallocated.

“The funding is for the whole Perth Freight Link project and is specific to the project. It cannot simply be ‘re-allocated’ to other projects,” the spokesman said.

“Perth Freight Link has been assessed by the Government’s independent infrastructure adviser Infrastructure Australia as a high priority project addressing national connectivity issues.”

McGowan earlier unleashed his boldest policy ahead of the March State election, vowing to scrap Roe 8 and the Perth Freight Link, while redirecting the funding to other “congestion busting” road projects.

“Roe 8 is a highway to nowhere. It is a monumental waste of taxpayers’ money.” Mark McGowan

Mr McGowan says he will cancel and renegotiate the Roe 8 contract and has informed the contractors that they should do everything in their power to minimise the costs they incur building the road between now and the election.

The decision comes after Labor obtained legal advice from former State Solicitor Grant Donaldson SC, who examined the redacted Roe 8 contract tabled in Parliament and believes any liabilities to the State from termination would be “limited”.

In his advice, which Labor released today, Mr Donaldson highlighted a clause in the contract which allows the Commissioner of Main Roads to terminate the agreement at any time.

Mr Donaldson's advice is that clauses of that nature are not always seen in agreements of this kind.

“I assume the commissioner insisted upon the inclusion of such a term having regard to the announced intention of the Opposition to review the project if it forms Government and the proximity of the next election,” Mr Donaldson wrote.

Labor has pledged three new road projects to be funded from the savings of cancelling Roe 8:
* Bringing forward the $145m duplication of Armadale Road between Anstey and Tapper roads.
* Building a $166m bridge linking Armadale and North Lake roads over the Kwinana Freeway.
* Spending $95m to build two overpasses on Wanneroo Road over Ocean Reef Road and Joondalup Drive.

Mr McGowan said Labor had settled on a position that it believed was in the best long term interests of the State.
“Roe 8 is a highway to nowhere. It is a monumental waste of taxpayers’ money,” Mr McGowan said.

VIDEO: Transport Minister Bill Marmion said Labor's decision was “reckless and costly”.


Mr McGowan said it did not make sense to spend billions to build a “truck highway” to Fremantle Port, which he believed would fill in ten years.

Instead, Labor will commit $20 million to planning a new outer harbour in Cockburn Sound, and container numbers at Fremantle would eventually be capped.

Labor also plans to boost the subsidy paid to put containers on rail out of Fremantle, rather than on trucks, which it argues will immediately take trucks off the roads.

In all, Labor plans to use $236 million of Roe 8 money on the three new projects it has announced, with the balance of their total $406 million cost already allocated in existing funding commitments.

Labor is banking on using the full $1.7 billion allocated to the Perth Freight Link project for other transport priorities - even though the vast bulk of that cash is from the Federal Government and pledged specifically to the PFL project.

Asked why he was confident that the Federal money would not be withdrawn if PFL was abandoned, Mr McGowan cited the precedent in Victoria when that State's incoming Labor Government cancelled the East-West Link road project.


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WA Labor's forthcoming disaster continues...


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The Roe 8 and Perth Freight Link projects have been the target of numerous protests. Picture: Ian Munro/The West Australian

“The Commonwealth dedicated its contribution (to East-West Link) to other congestion busting projects in Melbourne and Victoria,” Mr McGowan said.

“If the people of WA, on March 11, vote in favour of Labor, they are voting in favour of our plans for this project and we would expect - in fact demand - that the Commonwealth respect the will of the people of WA.

“Woe betide any Federal Liberal Government that's already ripping us off on GST to rip more money out of WA.”

Mr McGowan said that Federal Liberal candidates had already campaigned in favour of building the three new projects Labor was proposing.
Greens MLC Lyn MacLaren said it was about time Mr McGowan came to the party.

“I’m pleased the ALP has finally bowed to pressure from the Greens and the community to rule out Roe 8 once and for all,” Ms MacLaren said.


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