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Government Media Monitoring Unit GOVERNMENT MEDIA MONITORING UNIT DATE: APRIL 1ST, 2005 TIME: 7.14AM STATION: 720 ABC PERTH BREAKFAST (CAMERON) SUBJECT: KENNEDY – WEEK IN POLITICS This transcript is produced for information purposes only. Although all care is taken, no warranty as to its accuracy or completeness is given. It is your responsibility to ensure by independent verification that all information is correct before placing any reliance on it. CAMERON Time to talk politics with Peter Kennedy... (greetings not transcribed)... State Parliament resumed. Plenty on the plate, notably John D’Orazio’s head. KENNEDY Well he certainly was under pressure. He kept saying that he’s... I’ve been the minister for two-and-a-half weeks, you know, by this week he’s been a minister for three weeks. But when Parliament resumed, not only had there been the one escape earlier in the week, but within 24 hours there’d been two escapes, including the second one, of course, being Brian Edwards, who’d been convicted of a double murder. So he really was under pressure and the Opposition didn’t let him off the rack, and on Tuesday, didn’t let the Government off the rack, putting the question: who signed; who signed the documents that enabled Edwards to be put into a less secure institution? And it was a bit like drawing teeth, but by Wednesday morning the Premier, who made it clear that his was a signatory on the document, and also Jim McGinty, and the point was being made that it was on the advice that was given to them. So, I mean, this was a good start for the Opposition to be able to sort of go in on an issue like that... CAMERON Right on the front foot. KENNEDY ... my word. And then, as you know now, John D’Orazio said we’re going to have this inquiry, we’re going to have an independent inquirer, terms of reference are being done, and the Opposition was saying, well, you know, they came in on the attack again. It’s got to be an open inquiry, it’s got to be a judicial inquiry, got to have the power to call the previous minister, Michelle Roberts – that sort of stuff. So, I mean, it was a good 1 start to Parliament from... particularly from the Opposition’s point of view. Now I might say, also, that John D’Orazio, as the new minister, handled it pretty well, and for instance calling an inquiry. That’s what you’d expect in a situation like this to sort of... CAMERON Were you seeing ‘Yes Minister’? KENNEDY Exactly. If do call an inquiry, I want a report on my desk by nine o’clock tomorrow morning. So they’re obvious answers. But it’s apparent that the department’s not working well; justice isn’t working well. Something needs to be done and maybe this the circuit breaker as far as the government of the day is concerned... CAMERON Just sort it out. KENNEDY ... yeah, exactly. And so... I mean, if something good can come out of this, then obviously that’s to everyone’s benefit. CAMERON Now speaking of good things coming out of things. The power rebate, is that a good thing? KENNEDY That was a little circuit breaker – if I could use that term – yesterday. CAMERON I tell you something. If you had a break of 11 hrs and 50 minutes, wouldn’t you be furious? KENNEDY You’d be a bit dark, in more ways than dark. CAMERON Exactly. KENNEDY 2 ... but the... and the Government needed the circuit breaker because it was on the back foot with regards to the jails, and so yesterday afternoon, question time, Alan Carpenter unveiled this rebate scheme: $80 if you lose your power for more than 12 hrs; Western Power’s got to pay it out automatically. Someone said to me, where’s the brainwave come from. Apparently it operates in most other states now... CAMERON Oh, really. KENNEDY ... so... and it was really drawn on that and it was… led most of the bulletins last night and as far as the Government’s concerned, I think they would have been a bit relieved that it had taken the jails off the headlines. I don’t think Western Power was all that pleased. I think Mr Carpenter sort of said to Western Power, this is what you’re going to do. CAMERON And they said, oh goody goody. KENNEDY They sort of said, well we’ve been working along something like this anyway. CAMERON Oh right. KENNEDY But I think it might have been fast-tracked. But it’ll cost Western Power, based on last year’s figures, close to three million, including about 800,000 in administrative costs. CAMERON That’s interesting. KENNEDY And as we’ve heard on the news this morning, small business people aren’t happy about it because some small businesses will qualify, but the bigger your annual power consumption, then… CAMERON …it diminishes down. KENNEDY No, there’s a cut-off point and you just lose out altogether. 3 CAMERON If you had a side of lamb go off in the fridge, that’s going to be more than 80 bucks to replace. KENNEDY Oh well, as Alan Carpenter said, it’s not going to solve everybody… not everyone’s going to be delighted about it, but he said it’s compensation for inconvenience for ordinary householders. And I suppose if you are inconvenienced, like that, then something like this is sort of useful I suppose and it’s an incentive obviously to Western Power, to fix everything. CAMERON Now Peter there’s some new members warming the leather, you would have been watching them, anything impressive in the way of first speeches? KENNEDY Lots of maiden speeches this week and generally pretty good, good standard and yesterday there were a couple I’ll just make a quick mention of, John McGrath, the member for South Perth, one of my former journalistic colleagues, is the new Liberal member there, it’s become a journalist seat in fact South Perth, because he’s replaced Phillip Pendal and I suppose when John McGrath retires, who knows when, there will probably be another journalist lining up, saying this is the journalist seat, so this is ours. He enlisted all the journalists who were in Parliament, in fact there are five journalists in state parliament right now, he’s the fifth. CAMERON Oh right. KENNEDY So it’s an extraordinary…. CAMERON Better than lawyers….do you reckon it could be line ball? KENNEDY …lawyers were very strong there for a number of years….. CAMERON …yes, yes….. KENNEDY 4 And school teachers had their run, and accountants….well not so many accountants, but yes, you do have bursts from time to time. And he made reference to the fact also and this was interesting I thought from across party point of view, the number of journalists who have sort of contributed to public life over the years, he drew on John Curtin, he drew on Paul Hasluck, whe I noticed in your list today….. CAMERON Yes it was his birthday. KENNEDY And he would…if he was still alive, he’d be turning 100 today, born in 1905 and I mean there’s Brian Burke, there’s a whole stack of….and John Bowler, is a former journalist, in the new Ministry now as well as Alan Carpenter, as well as……so look, it’s a big contribution there, and he also, John being a former racing writer, made the point that perhaps the days of turfs track for racing could be numbered, particularly when you have pollution of the river, say from Belmont……the algal blooms…. CAMERON …yes….. KENNEDY ….and he made the point that…and water problems of course, and he said perhaps we should have racing on sort of artificial tracks…..and he said that’s quite common in other countries, in the United States and some European countries, quite common. So he said perhaps we should give that a trial, so I thought that was interesting. Trevor Sprigg, the former East Fremantle footballer, made reference to when he was doorknocking, the sixth house he doorknocked on, the occupants said, I’m a Labor voter and I barrack for South Fremantle and that wasn’t much hope for Trevor, he’s a Liberal and he played for East Fremantle, but he did say at the end of it, the fellow said, good luck to you. But by and large the standard of the opening speech was very good. CAMERON And Matt Birney has made a plea for no leaks from the party room, is his second name Pollyanna or something? KENNEDY Well I suppose every leader hopes that…you generally hope in vain, but I’m told at the Liberal Party room this week, he did make an impassioned plea, and for instance he said it was absolutely critical, I’m told, that there be no leaks from the party room and appealed to his colleagues and he used the phrase I’m told, to lock arms and march forward together. So this was sort of quite stirring stuff…..they say by the way Ian, the best ships always leak from the top, you know that…..but we’ll work on that. But I’m also told that reference was made in the Liberal Party room this week, about Alan Cadby, the Independent member whose vote will be crucial on one-vote, one- 5 value, and reference made to section 61 of the criminal code and I went to the library and had a look at section 61 of the criminal code and it’s headed bribery of member of Parliament and clause two makes the point that attempts to directly or indirectly by fraud or whatever, to influence a member of parliament, in the way he or she votes or has opinions, or to try and induce that person to be absent from a vote, on a particular issue, anyone who does that is guilty of a crime and is liable to imprisonment for seven years so it’s quite sort of….the warning went out just to take it easy, we know Alan’s vote will be vital in this issue, but any dealings you have with him, you better be….just watch it.
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