Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Ripon electorate

Ms STALEY (Ripon) (14:43): (6180) My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. Will the government review its banking and financial services state purchase contract to allow existing state government agencies and organisations in Ripon to continue to bank with their local community bank? I am particularly referring to Inglewood and District Community Enterprises, which is a Bendigo Bank that has had the local health services bank with them for many years. They have written to me on the back of correspondence from the minister to them, and they note that what he has said means that they can only be entrusted with the cash raised by the fruit tree drive and the next raffle, a crumb of comfort in mitigation of a bad policy. This is really harming my local communities, this latest contract, and I ask the minister to vary it.