Nuclear Waste

The Hon. M.C. PARNELL (14:34): How does the minister reconcile the two things that he has just said in his answer, namely, that the government's response is based on conviction, yet he also acknowledges the Premier has just announced there will be no policy or legislative change? How does the minister reconcile those two things? If the government has a conviction and you are not going to do any policy or legislative change, what are you going to do?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:34): Our conviction is clear in that it has an appetite towards a bipartisan approach on this important issue—an important opportunity for our state's future. The opposition has, unfortunately, completely abandoned any sense of bipartisanship, which we know reflects a complete lack of conviction and backbone on behalf of those members opposite who aren't willing to stand up to the Leader of the Opposition, for the sake of political expediency.