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Legislative Council Legislative Council Wednesday, 29 June 2005 THE PRESIDENT (Hon Nick Griffiths) took the chair at 4.00 pm, and read prayers. ALCOA LIQUOR BURNER, KWINANA Petition HON GIZ WATSON (North Metropolitan) [4.01 pm]: I present the following petition - To the President and Members of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia in Parliament assembled. We, the undersigned residents of Western Australia, respectfully express our deep concern regarding the proposal to re-commission the Alcoa Liquor Burner at Kwinana. Recommissioning of the Alcoa Kwinana Liquor Burner could increase the amount of allegedly harmful pollutants and suspected cancer causing compounds in the Kwinana Air Shed, which could lead to adverse human health impacts on the Alcoa employees and the surrounding residents. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Legislative Council will oppose the proposal to re-commission the Alcoa Liquor Burner at Kwinana. And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. The petition bears one signature and I certify that it conforms to the standing orders of the Legislative Council. [See paper 483.] MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER ADVOCACY PROGRAM Petition HON GIZ WATSON (North Metropolitan) [4.03 pm]: I present the following petition - To the President and the Members of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia in Parliament assembled. We the undersigned residents Western Australia support mental health consumers who are involved in Consumer Representative work. The Mental Health Consumer Advocacy Program provided a unique agency through which mental health consumers’ could contribute to consumer focused systemic reform of the planning and service provision of mental health services in Western Australia. Your petitioners, therefore, respectfully request that the Legislative Council will recommend to the Government that it provide adequate funding to the Mental Health Consumer Advocacy Program so that it is able to continue its contribution to the planning, delivery and reform of consumer focused mental health services in Western Australia. And your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray. The petition bears 51 signatures and I certify that it conforms to the standing orders of the Legislative Council. [See paper 484.] STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO REPORT ON ALCOA REFINERY, WAGERUP Statement by Leader of the House HON KIM CHANCE (Agricultural - Leader of the House) [4.04 pm]: I draw the attention of the house to the state government’s formal response to the report by the Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs on the inquiry into the Alcoa refinery at Wagerup. Members are aware that the committee inquiry into the refinery at Wagerup began in November 2001. The report of the committee was tabled in the Legislative Council on 28 October 2004, and contained 29 recommendations. The government generally supports 28 of the recommendations, and actions to implement them are already under way. The recommendation that the environmental health foundation membership be expanded to include community representation is not supported because the foundation is a body of expert health professionals. The government’s response was coordinated by the Ministerial Council on Health, Environment and Industry Sustainability, which was chaired by the Minister for the Environment. The response is consistent with the very significant amount of work that has been and is being coordinated through the ministerial council to address issues [COUNCIL - Wednesday, 29 June 2005] 3541 associated with Alcoa’s Wagerup operations. It reflects also the government’s commitment to protect and enhance Western Australia’s lifestyle and the environment. In particular, it means that the environmental and health concerns of people in local communities such as Yarloop are being addressed, and that an integrated long-term approach to wider matters of community concern regarding environmental health issues is being developed. Licence conditions for the refinery also have been tightened regarding dust, noise and emissions. This is also in response to community concerns. Subject to standing order 337, I table a copy of the government’s response to the inquiry by the Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs report into the Alcoa refinery at Wagerup. [See paper 485.] Debate adjourned, on motion by Hon Bruce Donaldson. ELECTION STATISTICS, ADJUSTMENT Statement by Parliamentary Secretary HON SUE ELLERY (South Metropolitan - Parliamentary Secretary) [4.06 pm]: The Minister for Electoral Affairs has received advice from the Acting Electoral Commissioner, Mr Warwick Gately, that following the final review of statistical analysis of the 2005 state general election polling figures, there is a need to make a minor adjustment to the published total voting figures for the Legislative Council’s statistical return for the East Metropolitan and South Metropolitan Regions. These adjustments do not in any way affect the results of the 2005 state general election. At the conclusion of each state general election, the Western Australian Electoral Commission routinely reviews voting figures from each polling place across the state when preparing a comprehensive statistical return as part of the post- election reporting. In the case of the results from one polling place in the East Metropolitan Region, the number of votes cast was found to have been entered twice into the Compuvote program, which distributes and counts votes according to elector intentions. This means that the total valid votes eligible for counting in the East Metropolitan Region must be reduced by 1 958 valid votes. This reduction does not affect the result of the election, but is necessary for numerical correctness in the event that subsequent recounts for the East Metropolitan Region are required. The numerical review work undertaken by the commission across all districts and regions is complete. The only other discrepancy identified amounts to an adjustment of an additional six votes in the South Metropolitan Region, which will be added to the final voting figures for numerical correctness. This adjustment does not affect the result of the election. On behalf of the Minister for Electoral Affairs, I table the initial figures and the correct figures for the two regions for the information of members. [See paper 486.] Debate adjourned, on motion by Hon Bruce Donaldson. STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, TENTH REPORT Notice of Motion Hon Louise Pratt gave notice that at the next sitting of the house she would move - That the tenth report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs titled “Chemical Use by the Agriculture Protection Board 1970-1985” tabled in the Legislative Council on 21 October 2004 be reinstated as an order of the day for the next sitting. STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, ELEVENTH REPORT Notice of Motion Hon Louise Pratt gave notice that at the next sitting of the house she would move - That the eleventh report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs titled “Alcoa Refinery at Wagerup Inquiry” tabled in the Legislative Council on 28 October 2004 be reinstated as an order of the day for the next sitting. STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, TWELFTH REPORT Notice of Motion Hon Louise Pratt gave notice that at the next sitting of the house she would move - That the twelfth report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs titled “A Petition on the Provision of Mental Health Services in Western Australia - Interim Report” tabled in the Legislative Council on 12 November 2004 be reinstated as an order of the day for the next sitting. STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THIRTEENTH REPORT Notice of Motion Hon Louise Pratt gave notice that at the next sitting of the house she would move - 3542 [COUNCIL - Wednesday, 29 June 2005] That the thirteenth report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs titled “A Petition on Primary Midwifery Care” tabled in the Legislative Council on 16 November 2004 be reinstated as an order of the day for the next sitting. STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, FOURTEENTH REPORT Notice of Motion Hon Louise Pratt gave notice that at the next sitting of the house she would move - That the fourteenth report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs titled “An Overview of Petitions and Inquiries - Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament (August 2002 to November 2004)” tabled in the Legislative Council on 19 November 2004 be reinstated as an order of the day for the next sitting. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE Motion HON KIM CHANCE (Agricultural - Leader of the House) [4.13 pm] - without notice: I move - That motions 17, 18, 21, 22, 23 and 24 be taken before motion 2. By way of explanation, it is my intention, if the house consents to this motion, to move to reinstate as orders of the day each of the committee reports that are dealt with under each of those motions. Those committee reports are currently trapped in motions. It is not until we get them into orders of the day that we will be able to consider the reports that have been tabled. Therefore, this is a machinery action to enable scrutiny of those reports. At this stage I need the consent of the house to deal with that matter before we move on to motion 2, Rally Australia. HON NORMAN MOORE (Mining and Pastoral - Leader of the Opposition) [4.14 pm]: This was not quite the way I had anticipated this would happen, but I am prepared to go along with it on the basis that the government at least - I cannot speak on behalf of any members in particular - has no intention of debating these particular motions at this time, because we are already in the middle of debating a motion. My support for this motion is based on the fact that it is a machinery motion, and the issues attached to these motions will be debated when they come onto the notice paper as orders of the day.
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