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7911 Select Committee on Cyclone Preparedness [Wednesday, 5 May 1999] 7911 SELECT COMMITTEE ON CYCLONE PREPAREDNESS Motion MR GRAHAM (Pilbara) [6.02 pm]: I move - (1) That a select committee of the Legislative Assembly be established to - (a) review, consider, report upon and comment on the effectiveness or otherwise of procedures that are in place for communities in the cyclone prone areas of the State that are aimed at enabling those communities to cope with severe tropical cyclones and associated weather phenomena; (b) review, consider, report upon and comment on the level of cyclone preparedness or otherwise in those communities, having regard to the ability of those communities to withstand the effects of severe tropical cyclones; (c) review, consider, report upon and comment on the effectiveness or otherwise of the emergency management organisations that are responsible for making decisions in the event of severe tropical cyclones; (d) review, consider, report upon and comment on the effectiveness or otherwise of the emergency management plans that are in place for those communities, including evacuation plans; (e) review, consider, report upon and comment on the effectiveness or otherwise of the public awareness campaigns that are in place in those communities; (f) review, consider, report upon and comment on the effectiveness or otherwise of the manner in which information is released to the public during cyclone season; and (g) review, consider, report upon and comment on the effectiveness or otherwise of the effect of uniform building code regulations. (2) That the committee have the power to send for persons and papers, to sit on days over which the House stands adjourned, to move from place to place and to report from time to time, if it deems necessary. (3) That the committee present its final report by 28 November 1999. After 10 years in this Parliament; after nearly 30 years living in either the South East Asian typhoon or monsoon belt and the northern half of Australia on both sides of the continent; having survived cyclones both on land and at sea; having survived cyclone Joan which was, up until cyclone Orson, the biggest cyclone that had crossed the State in Western Australia, certainly in living memory; and having been a veteran of cyclone Althea in Townsville - I think in 1981, I come to the motion with some knowledge of cyclones, albeit I do not claim to be an expert by any stretch of the imagination. The Government wants to discuss tropical cyclone Vance. I know that because of two events: First, the public comments that the Government made; and, second, the fact that now for about a week government departments have been squirrelling away information and feeding it up to the Minister for Emergency Services about all the good things that happened during tropical cyclone Vance. Mr Prince: Have they? Mr GRAHAM: Yes. I am sure the minister has briefing notes hanging out of his fundamentals. Mr Prince: No. I have one and I asked for it today, not before today. Mr GRAHAM: I just make the point as I have made it privately to the minister: This motion is not about cyclone Vance. Mr Baker: It is about overseas travel vouchers. Mr GRAHAM: No. The member for Joondalup is a very cynical man. It is not about tropical cyclone Vance. All that tropical cyclone Vance has done as far as this effort for a select committee is concerned is made cyclones topical in the southern half of Western Australia. They have been topical in the northern half of Western Australia for many years. The select committee that I propose is about disaster management procedures as they relate to cyclones. Cyclones only affect the southern half of this State occasionally. When they do they get great TV coverage, many people are seen and photos are taken and all those things. However, in the northern half of Australia they are the biggest single influence on people's lives and safety in any given year because they are always likely. I am extremely disappointed that the Government has already rejected the call for a select committee; and it has done that publicly. I am bitterly disappointed for two reasons: First, there was no justification for the Government to reject the proposal, not even having seen the terms of reference, not even knowing what it was that I and the Opposition were calling for and, second, there is no doubt that a review of the cyclone procedures in this State is overdue. I will go through and explain that in great detail. It is interesting when one reads the press release from the Minister for Emergency Services published on 19 April. It reads - Emergency Services Minister Kevin Prince has dismissed as "arrant nonsense" Labor Party calls for a Parliamentary inquiry into the State's emergency procedures and preparedness for cyclones. The words "arrant nonsense" are in inverted commas; I therefore presume that is a personal quote from the minister. Two paragraphs down the minister goes on to outline how his department is reviewing the State's emergency procedures and preparedness for cyclones. 7912 [ASSEMBLY] Mr Prince: That is right. Mr GRAHAM: What arrant nonsense, with respect to the minister. Mr Prince: No, it is not. Mr GRAHAM: It is arrant nonsense to say that there is no need for an inquiry and in the same press release announce an inquiry. Mr Prince: You only have an inquiry when things have been badly handled. If they are handled well you do not need one. Mr GRAHAM: I will come to that. Believe me, between now and knock-off time we will come to it at length. Mr Prince: Are you going to speak for 60 minutes? Mr GRAHAM: The minister will get an opportunity to speak. I would like to think that the minister would open up his mind, as the member for Hillarys is advocating that older and younger people do - I am not sure which category the minister falls into - and be a little receptive to something. Mr Prince: I am in the prime of life; you are over the hill. Mr Pendal: We call them seniors. Mr Prince: We call them over the hill. The member for Pilbara and I are in the prime of life. Mr GRAHAM: I think we have bipartisan support on that interjection. The minister then goes on to talk about the comprehensive public education campaign and how successful it has been in the north west of the State. He then announces in the same press release how people do not understand what is happening in those publicity campaigns and that there is a need for legislation to compel them to go along with the campaign. The press release made me angry when I first saw it. That is neither here nor there; one should not change Governments' views because I get angry. However, the press release demonstrates a complete lack of understanding between the emergency service operatives in the northern half of the State and the minister and operatives in the southern half of the State. I will come back to that but I make that point. The press release goes on - Mr Prince said new Emergency Services legislation was being drafted to empower emergency managers to compel residents in cyclone-prone areas to clear potentially hazardous materials such as sheet metal and unfastened sheds from their yards. "While such powers currently exist under local government by-laws, it can be a protracted administrative process and emergency managers should have the power to act quickly in the event of an approaching cyclone," the Minister said. Mr GRAHAM: I thank the minister; I have been saying that in this place for six years. Mr Prince: That is why I quoted it. Mr GRAHAM: As recently as September last year, the minister was arguing the exact opposite. Mr Prince: Who, me? Mr GRAHAM: Yes. After five years in here I had convinced the Minister for Local Government to get off his butt and do it after the Premier and the Cabinet told me to get the Shire of Roebourne's by-laws and implement them to fix the problem but they did not. When I drew up a private member's Bill to include something in the Act that this Government said could not work, we had discussions behind the Chair and I was allowed to withdraw that Bill and resubmit it in the minister's name, including a clause dealing with an appeal division which I argued against and which did not work. There was not one political shot in that process. We had simple, commonsense and bipartisan support to get a recalcitrant Government to deal with cyclones. Finally, the Minister for Local Government admitted his blue and I had to redraft the legislation. We went through hours of discussions and we put the appeal system to the minister as opposed to the court. At the time I pointed out that it would not work because local government does not have the ticker to deal with it when times get rough. Members opposite voted me down, particularly the Minister for Police, who said the exact opposite. He picked up on comments made by the member for Burrup and said he agreed with him. I wanted the powers shifted from local government and given to the State Emergency Service, and the minister responsible chose not to do that. What he is now doing and highlighting is what he should have done six years ago. This Government has made a bungle of the legislation on cyclones from day one because it did not and still will not listen to the people in the north west.
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