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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 23 Jul 2008 Estimates Committee F—Transport, Trade, Employment & Industrial Relations 1 WEDNESDAY, 23 JULY 2008 Legislative Assembly ESTIMATES COMMITTEE F—TRANSPORT, TRADE, EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Estimates Committee F Members Estimates Committee F—Transport, Trade, Employment & Industrial Relations Mr JD O’Brien (Chair) Mrs EA Cunningham Mr DF Gibson Mr PJ Lawlor Mrs JR Miller Mr TJ Nicholls Mr SPA Wettenhall In Attendance Hon. JR Mickel, Minister for Transport, Trade, Employment and Industrial Relations Queensland Rail Mr L Hockridge, Chief Executive Officer Mr P Scurrah, Executive General Manager, Passenger Service Trade Queensland Mr R Whiddon, General Manager Queensland Transport Mr D Stewart, Director-General Mr P Low, Deputy Director-General Mr T Philp, Director, Finance Mr L Hannah, Executive Director (Acting), Rail Ports and Freight Division Department of Employment and Industrial Relations Mr P Henneken, Director-General Mr B Leahy, Deputy Director-General Mr B Carlon, Executive Director, Employment and Indigenous Initiatives Mr T Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer, WorkCover Queensland Mr G Kenney, Director, Executive Services Committee met at 8.29 am CHAIR: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I now declare this hearing of Estimates Committee F open. On behalf of the committee I welcome the minister, departmental officers and members of the public to the hearing. My name is Jason O’Brien. I am the member for Cook and the chair of the committee. Mr David Gibson is the member for Gympie and the deputy chair. The other committee members are Ms Jo-Ann Miller, the member for Bundamba; Mr Peter Lawlor, the member for Southport; Mr Steve Wettenhall, the member for Barron River; Mrs Elizabeth Cunningham, the member for Gladstone; and Mr Tim Nicholls, the member for Clayfield. 2 Estimates Committee F—Transport, Trade, Employment & Industrial Relations 23 Jul 2008 The committee will examine the proposed expenditure contained in the Appropriation Bill 2008 for the portfolio areas of the Minister for Transport, Trade, Employment and Industrial Relations and the Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation this afternoon. The committee will examine the portfolio areas in that order. The committee will suspend proceedings for morning tea from 10.30 to 10.45, lunch from 12.15 to 1.15 and afternoon tea from 2.45 to 3 pm. Today’s proceedings are lawful proceedings and subject to the standing rules and orders of the parliament. Members of the public are welcome to observe the proceedings but may not participate in the proceedings. In accordance with standing order 206, any person admitted to this hearing may be excluded at the discretion of the chair or by order of the committee. The committee has resolved that the media may take television footage without sound and photographs during the opening statements by the chair and each minister and for a short period at the commencement of each changeover in departments. The committee has also resolved that the proceedings of the hearing will be broadcast by the Parliamentary Service via the service’s web site and by receivers throughout the parliamentary precinct. I remind members of the committee and the minister that the time limit for questions is one minute and answers are to be no longer than three minutes. A single chime will give a 15-second warning and a double chime will sound at the end of each of these time limits. An extension of time may be given with the consent of the questioner. A double chime will sound two minutes after the extension of time has been given. The standing orders require that at least half the time available for questions at today’s hearing is allocated to non-government members. Any time expended when the committee deliberates in private is to be equally apportioned between government and non-government members. Government members and non-government members will take turns asking questions in blocks lasting approximately 20 minutes, commencing with non-government members. I ask advisers to the minister to identify themselves when they come forward to answer a question if the minister refers a question to them so that Hansard can record their name. I also remind members, witnesses and members of the public that no food or drink is permitted to be consumed in the Legislative Council chamber. Before we begin I ask that mobile phones and pagers be switched off or switched to silent mode. I now declare the proposed expenditure for the Minister for Transport, Trade, Employment and Industrial Relations open for examination. The time allocated is three hours and 30 minutes. The question before the committee is— That the proposed expenditure be agreed to. Minister, under standing order 177 you are able to make an opening statement that does not exceed five minutes. Would you like to make an opening statement? Mr MICKEL: Thank you. Mr Chairman and committee members, our strong economic and population growth propels our economy, but it needs to be managed and planned for. That is what we are doing. Since setting up integrated ticketing in TransLink in 2004, our patronage growth is 37 per cent. We are the only east coast state to have a successful operating smart card for public transport that is cashless, quick, convenient and safe. But more can be done. That is why we are building more trains, more buses, more stations and more busways. We are building the single biggest program of infrastructure upgrades not just in south- east Queensland but across the entire state. This financial year we will spend a record $3.65 billion on transport infrastructure—a 47 per cent increase, I am advised, over the previous year. The $333 million Inner Northern Busway has been completed in May 2008 on budget and six months ahead of schedule. Since opening that busway patronage has jumped by 10 per cent. But we are also investing heavily in rail—in its people-moving capacity and its coal-moving capacity. From Helensvale to Robina on the Gold Coast we are building a $72 million second rail track and a new train station at Varsity Lakes. On the Gold Coast we are solving the sins of the 1960s where the Bjelke-Petersen government ripped up the rail tracks and sold off the rail corridor. We built the third track from Salisbury to Kuraby. We are upgrading the Brunswick Street station, upgrading Indooroopilly station and have started work at Richlands and also the Varsity Lakes station. In the last decade Queensland has grown its coal exports by 101 per cent—from 76.03 million tonnes per year in 1996-97 to 153.2 million tonnes per year in 2006-07. The dollar value of that growth has been even more spectacular—from $4.43 billion to $16.3 billion, a 268 per cent increase. This export growth in response to strong world demand, particularly from the Asia-Pacific region, has meant more jobs and has given us the strongest economic growth in the nation. Based on current demand, coal exports are projected to grow further, by about 42 per cent to 218 million tonnes per year by 2010. We have committed $576.4 million for coal line track works in central Queensland. We have committed $303.7 million for new and upgraded locomotives and wagons and we have $355 million to boost coal tonnage capacity at Abbot Point. 23 Jul 2008 Estimates Committee F—Transport, Trade, Employment & Industrial Relations 3 But our focus on overseas markets is not limited to coal. There are many Queensland businesses that Trade Queensland has assisted to take our tally to, I am advised, $519 million worth of export sales in 2007-08. Trade Queensland has provided export assistance to 2,860 Queensland companies in 2007-08, with more than 48 per cent of these in regional Queensland. All of this activity to keep Queensland moving and growing is carried out with workplace health and safety uppermost in our minds. Most Queensland employers do the right thing by their employees, but safety laws have to be enforced. Every worker has a right to a fair’s day pay for a fair day’s work in a safe working environment. Education plays a key role in helping employers and employees meet these obligations. That is why we created the Homecomings workplace health and safety campaign, and we are still getting requests from workers and employees across the state for copies of the information packs and DVDs. In the last year, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland has taken its role as the guardian of safe workplaces seriously. More than 25,000 workplaces were audited by Workplace Health and Safety. There have been 106 prosecutions in 2007-08. In a state that is booming, it is important that no-one is left behind. In 2007-08, we invested $81.6 million in helping 18,000 people get jobs in the Skilling Queenslanders for Work program. We are planning and building better transport for population growth. We are expanding our transport for export growth. We are diversifying our exports and expertise to ensure sustained growth and ensuring this activity takes place in a safe state where everybody can have the best opportunity for a prosperous and healthy future. CHAIR: Thank you, Minister. We will commence our examination with Queensland Rail followed by Trade Queensland. The first period of questioning is allocated to non-government members. I call the member for Clayfield. Mr NICHOLLS: Thank you, Minister. With reference to page 3-195 of the Service Delivery Statements, which is the general introduction, are you able to advise the committee of the greenhouse gas emissions estimated for QR’s operations for 2007-08 and give an idea of what they may be for the forthcoming financial year? Mr MICKEL: In terms of just Queensland Rail, we are advised that passenger motor vehicles are 3.9 times more energy intensive than passenger rail transport.
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