Thursday, 31 October 2024
Adjournment
Suburban Rail Loop
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Table of contents
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Bills
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Building Legislation Amendment and Other Matters Bill 2024
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Committee
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
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- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Division
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- David LIMBRICK
- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
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- Division
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- Division
- Harriet SHING
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Roads and Road Safety Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
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Committee
- Katherine COPSEY
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Jeff BOURMAN
- David ETTERSHANK
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Harriet SHING
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Bills
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Building Legislation Amendment and Other Matters Bill 2024
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Committee
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Division
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- David LIMBRICK
- David DAVIS
- Division
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- Division
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- Division
- Harriet SHING
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Roads and Road Safety Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
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Committee
- Katherine COPSEY
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Jeff BOURMAN
- David ETTERSHANK
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Harriet SHING
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Suburban Rail Loop
Richard WELCH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (22:14): (1255) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop. Today we had issued the 2023–24 annual report for the Suburban Rail Loop. I like nothing more than delving into numbers, spreadsheets and figures, and I can assure the house that I will be looking very, very deeply at the numbers. But time prevents that, so the first thing I have gleaned from the figures is some strange anomalies. When you are into spreadsheets, the one thing you hate is when things do not add up, and there is something that does not add up around these notorious community grants.
The community grants program is a $250 million slush fund that the SRL has to dispense at its whim in the general vicinity of the Suburban Rail Loop. So far, according to the annual report, it has dispensed perhaps $2.6 million of that. I think most of the members here on both sides would be incredibly frustrated about that, because we all know how hard it is for us to get money for our communities – how hard we have to work, the hoops we have to go through, the justifications we need to create to serve our community– and this unelected statutory body can just waft in and show largesse to its own political advantage.
The anomaly in all this is that the first round of community grants closed in May 2022, and according to the website, which was updated in August this year, that is still the case. Round 2 was not opened up. Yet in the annual report we see that in 2023 $991,000 in grants were issued and in the 2024 reporting period we have $1.6 million in grants. How can that be if the grants closed in 2022? Also, it says that it had issued 72 grants, yet their website, when you go through the full list of them, has 78 grants listed
My question to and the action for the minister is: can you please provide an audit to clarify whether this is an accounting error – that you have put this under operating expenses rather than grants – that you can reconcile the figures to the actual status of the year and that there is some audit, because frankly, it stinks. Where there is smoke there is fire, and I would suspect that if I do not get a satisfactory answer we should strongly consider referring this to the Auditor-General.