NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING

Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart) (15:12): Supplementary: given that the Premier has explained to us a range of things that he agrees with, will he please tell me whether he agrees with police commissioner Gary Burns that funding of the five new neighbourhood policing teams is necessary to achieve the government's Safe Communities, Healthy Neighbourhoods target?

The Hon. T.R. Kenyon interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Before I call the Premier, I call the Minister for Manufacturing to order and I warn him for the first time. I believe he has been doing it all day. The Premier.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (15:13): I am not going to be drawn into a public discussion about individual agencies' funding bids. It is simply not appropriate to be traversing those matters in public. There is a reason for it. For those opposite it has been a long time since they have occupied the Treasury benches, but there is an orderly process of ensuring that we are able to look at all the priorities of government and assess them so that we can make an appropriate judgement in the context of a budget.