Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Is the minister aware of attempts by the Western Australian government dating as far back as December 2004 to acquire Commonwealth land on the Perth Airport site to extend the Guildford cemetery to meet community needs? How is it that a decision to approve a brickworks against the express wishes of the community and the Liberal member for Hasluck can be made in a timely fashion but, after nearly two years, the government has still not given even in-principle support to dispose of land to expand an existing cemetery? Minister, is it the case that, as the land sought by the state government contains a track used by the Liberal member for O’Connor to train his horses, that has contributed to the minister’s delay in making a decision?