May 18, 2025 • 9 mins
The Premier joined Clairsy & Lisa in the studio for the first time since his election win earlier this year. They talked about both the State and Federal election wins for Labour plus his vision for the new Perth Bears NRL rugby team. he also talked to the guys about the new Entertainment and Sports Precinct at Burswood Park and the benefits it will bring to the State. The Premier also agreed to help Clairsy & Lisa's Poorly Drawn Pets fundraiser by drawing a cat named Catalina C.C Fantapants!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bramiey Roger Gook, Welcome to the studio for the first
time since.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, I didn't realize it's been so long.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We're really proud of that result. And you know, in
the meantime we've got to get down to work, right,
So it's it's been a busy for couple of months.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Would have been a lovely feeling though. I noticed that
the Prime Minister on his on his way to other duties,
was dropped in and there were big hugs all around
because you both previously just recently won elections.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, and obviously we had the state election and I
can understand everyone you know, gets overwhelmed by the federal
election because that's the big show, right. So it's but
it was great that the Prime Minister popped in on
his way through to Jakarta. He is keen to work
in partnership with my government to make sure we get
some great outcomes for the people of Western Australia. He
under understands that Western Australia is the engine room of
(00:51):
the national economy gets w a so that's why we're
keen to work together to get to really build on
the next four years.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, a few things have happened. First of all, the
announcement of the WA.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
N RL team.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, how confident are you it's going to work this time?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh? Look, we've learned a lot and learned through bitter
experience from the from the Western Reds. You might have
might have remembered them back in the nineteen nineties and
as a kid watching rugby league back then, I was
heartbroken by that experience. So we've been really keen to
make sure that the NRL take its responsibilities towards a
new team in the competition properly, which is the reason
(01:30):
why we work so hard around the negotiations to really
make sure we get it right. We don't want to
see them come give it a try and then go yeah, no,
we want it to be fair. You know, if this
is going to be a team playing in the National League,
well then they should be treated like all the other teams,
not you know, penalized for the fact that they're a newcomer.
So that's why we're really keen to make sure we
(01:50):
get We got the deal which would actually benefit Western Australia.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And the Reds were that were Super League as well.
Wasn't it so slightly different?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
They so the redsultimately got cannibalized through that whole league
of rugby league walls back in the nineteen nineties. So
let's hope, you know, that it doesn't happen again, that
we get it right this time. And one of the
ways we've done it is rather than a team coming
in on their own with the NRL sort of standing back, going,
you know, give it your best shot, the NRL are
(02:21):
actually deeply embedded in this new club, so they've got
a lot of stake in this. That right, it has
to work.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, of the battle already done.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The other thing that because I've noticed the reaction to
the Bears is sort of very split down the middle.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
People either lot.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Us or they don't care for it. The other thing
you have to win people over with is the Burswel racetrack.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah. Well, first on the Bears, I reckon, Now we've
got the team. Yeah, now the announcements. Maybe we've got
the Perth Bears. They're going to be our team in
the NRL. So the message to everyone is, look, I
know this has had a we've had a great debate
about this. Yeah, you know, I used to watch press conferences.
The journalists were arguing with each other rather than argument
with me. Sport races passions right. But now we've got
(03:04):
the Perth Bears. Everyone get on board. It's our local
West Ausie team in the NRL and I think everyone
will get excited, particularly in the lead up to twenty
twenty seven which is the first season that they are
actually competing. But you can see there'll be a huge
build up and a level of excitement. And this is
part and parcel of continuing to build the vibrancy of
Western Australia. We want people to come to Wa to work,
(03:26):
to live, to play, and part of that is creating content,
creating opportunities for people to really enjoy everything that we
have here. And that's why our entertainment and sports precinct
at Burswood is also an important part of this continuing
to build the vibrancy of Western Australia. So that's a
twenty between a fifteen and twenty thousand seat outdoor concert venue.
(03:50):
It'll also have the opportunities for cycling events, criterions, things
like that, and of course the thing that everyone's talking
about is a street circuit for motor racing, which will
occur maybe one weekend to two weekends a year. But
the main, the main opportunity here is to continue to
build a great festival, fair and outdoor entertainment precinct.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Did you see any of the Eagles game on TV
yesterday Roger the Eagles and Securita playing at Optus the
drone I saw the last quarter. The drone shots that
the seven were doing yesterday were magnificent. They show these Perth,
They showed the burswould from a long way out. There
were just in credit. I was just proud to be
a West I was watching that. That was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, so you can imagine for instance, I mean we've
identified supercars has been the main sport sports car event
that we would bring to that circuit. The street circuit
would not only allow for a great stage of a
great sport event, but it really builds the placemaking of
Western Australia. You'd see you can imagine, you know, camera
(04:50):
shots you know, panning from the race course to the
city scape to the amazing river that we had.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We had the red Bull thing right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Way to promote Perth as a destination and I want
Perth to be an event destination for Southeast Asia. Along
with Singapore, along with Hong Kong and other great cities
in the Southeast Asian region. And the way we do
that is to make sure we have this infrastructure and
really just build up the content.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You know, Jeff Kennet came at Victoria a bit like
that and he turned Victoria into an amazing straight And of.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Course nowadays you have the Formula one at Albert Park
and we know how much of a passionate debate that creative.
And so we believe this is this is our Albert
Park moment and we could really create an exciting opportunity.
The other thing we want to do, though, Lisa, is
that we want to make sure that we build out
(05:44):
the environmental values of that whole precinct. People may not
be aware, but Birdswood Peninsula is actually the site of
an old dump and not just a dump, a highly
toxic waste disposal.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
There was always concern about building up to the Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, I remember when off the shadow Minister for Sport,
we criticized it put in the stadium. Yeah, And so
we want to make sure that we can really build
out the environmental values, particularly along that river's edge where
I mean it's such a beautiful environment. We want to
continue to make sure we consolidate that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, you mentioned Singapore. You're heading to Singapore and Indonesia soon,
so there's a bit going on. Is that part of
the reason to keep those times.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's the ongoing work that we're doing to make sure
that Western Australia can take advantage of the economic opportunities
in the Southeast Asian region. So obviously we're out there
talking to industry groups, talking to governments in the region
to see what opportunities there are. So in particular, I'm
traveling to Surabao in East Java. We have a sister
(06:43):
state relationship with East Java and they're bringing a Surabaian
soccer team over to Western Australia in July. This is
all part of celebrating the thirty fifth anniversary of that relationship.
So I'm going over there just to have some government
and business meetings to continue to promote Western Australia is
a great place to invest and a great place to
do trade with.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now, we are very very grateful to you have kindly
agreed to do a sketch in our poorly drawn Pets fundraiser.
We're raising money for the cat haven. Are you do
you have pets?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I do. I've got a Burmese. It is a fifteen
year old Burmese, and bless him, he's he's getting on
a bit now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
My Burmese is twenty and they do well.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, yeah, a gorgeous little cat. A big shout out
to Terry. And somehow I've managed to be recruited into
this process of trying to.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Draw a well done and I'm looking at the cat here.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
This is a hard to draw a cat.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What you don't remember is it's called poorly drawn pets.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well, I think I can make the expectations of a
drawn pet.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Have a look at a couple of the ones I've.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Done, and you'll feel fineps are not high about that.
But someone's going to have a Roger original the wall
of their cat of what's.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
What's Roger's got? If you put that over, you'll see
the name of.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
The name Extraordinary fan pads or something CATLINI CC fan pants.
This is brilliant, yeah and look great calls to draw
a wonderful job. So I'm willing to humiliate myself by
exposing my dreadful drawing skills.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Best part of the cause, well, We're over twelve hundred
dollars run already.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's an incredible, fantastic well done.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I just think this morning, you know you would have
been in the car and you would have been going
through the agenda.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
You've got a meeting, top level meeting with such and
such cat radio falls.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hey, can I just before we go? Can I just
a couple of shout outs for the w A Studient
Assistants Payment, Right, it's open. This is one of our
key promises from the election. So far, we've had one
hundred and eighty eight thousand, two hundred claims for that,
representing about three hundred and twenty nine thousand students, so
any families haven't yet claimed their WO student Assistance payment.
It's one hundred and fifty dollars for every KINDI or
(09:05):
primary school student and two hundred and fifty dollars for
every high school student in the household. Great cost of
living relief, so we hope everyone takes advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Pushing two hundred thousands.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Thank you for coming in, Thank you for drawing fast.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
To be with you, guys, we'll go and shop in
your fantas
Bramiey Roger Gook, Welcome to the studio for the first
time since.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, I didn't realize it's been so long.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We're really proud of that result. And you know, in
the meantime we've got to get down to work, right,
So it's it's been a busy for couple of months.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Would have been a lovely feeling though. I noticed that
the Prime Minister on his on his way to other duties,
was dropped in and there were big hugs all around
because you both previously just recently won elections.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, and obviously we had the state election and I
can understand everyone you know, gets overwhelmed by the federal
election because that's the big show, right. So it's but
it was great that the Prime Minister popped in on
his way through to Jakarta. He is keen to work
in partnership with my government to make sure we get
some great outcomes for the people of Western Australia. He
under understands that Western Australia is the engine room of
(00:51):
the national economy gets w a so that's why we're
keen to work together to get to really build on
the next four years.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, a few things have happened. First of all, the
announcement of the WA.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
N RL team.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, how confident are you it's going to work this time?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh? Look, we've learned a lot and learned through bitter
experience from the from the Western Reds. You might have
might have remembered them back in the nineteen nineties and
as a kid watching rugby league back then, I was
heartbroken by that experience. So we've been really keen to
make sure that the NRL take its responsibilities towards a
new team in the competition properly, which is the reason
(01:30):
why we work so hard around the negotiations to really
make sure we get it right. We don't want to
see them come give it a try and then go yeah, no,
we want it to be fair. You know, if this
is going to be a team playing in the National League,
well then they should be treated like all the other teams,
not you know, penalized for the fact that they're a newcomer.
So that's why we're really keen to make sure we
(01:50):
get We got the deal which would actually benefit Western Australia.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And the Reds were that were Super League as well.
Wasn't it so slightly different?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
They so the redsultimately got cannibalized through that whole league
of rugby league walls back in the nineteen nineties. So
let's hope, you know, that it doesn't happen again, that
we get it right this time. And one of the
ways we've done it is rather than a team coming
in on their own with the NRL sort of standing back, going,
you know, give it your best shot, the NRL are
(02:21):
actually deeply embedded in this new club, so they've got
a lot of stake in this. That right, it has
to work.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, of the battle already done.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The other thing that because I've noticed the reaction to
the Bears is sort of very split down the middle.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
People either lot.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Us or they don't care for it. The other thing
you have to win people over with is the Burswel racetrack.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah. Well, first on the Bears, I reckon, Now we've
got the team. Yeah, now the announcements. Maybe we've got
the Perth Bears. They're going to be our team in
the NRL. So the message to everyone is, look, I
know this has had a we've had a great debate
about this. Yeah, you know, I used to watch press conferences.
The journalists were arguing with each other rather than argument
with me. Sport races passions right. But now we've got
(03:04):
the Perth Bears. Everyone get on board. It's our local
West Ausie team in the NRL and I think everyone
will get excited, particularly in the lead up to twenty
twenty seven which is the first season that they are
actually competing. But you can see there'll be a huge
build up and a level of excitement. And this is
part and parcel of continuing to build the vibrancy of
Western Australia. We want people to come to Wa to work,
(03:26):
to live, to play, and part of that is creating content,
creating opportunities for people to really enjoy everything that we
have here. And that's why our entertainment and sports precinct
at Burswood is also an important part of this continuing
to build the vibrancy of Western Australia. So that's a
twenty between a fifteen and twenty thousand seat outdoor concert venue.
(03:50):
It'll also have the opportunities for cycling events, criterions, things
like that, and of course the thing that everyone's talking
about is a street circuit for motor racing, which will
occur maybe one weekend to two weekends a year. But
the main, the main opportunity here is to continue to
build a great festival, fair and outdoor entertainment precinct.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Did you see any of the Eagles game on TV
yesterday Roger the Eagles and Securita playing at Optus the
drone I saw the last quarter. The drone shots that
the seven were doing yesterday were magnificent. They show these Perth,
They showed the burswould from a long way out. There
were just in credit. I was just proud to be
a West I was watching that. That was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, so you can imagine for instance, I mean we've
identified supercars has been the main sport sports car event
that we would bring to that circuit. The street circuit
would not only allow for a great stage of a
great sport event, but it really builds the placemaking of
Western Australia. You'd see you can imagine, you know, camera
(04:50):
shots you know, panning from the race course to the
city scape to the amazing river that we had.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We had the red Bull thing right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Way to promote Perth as a destination and I want
Perth to be an event destination for Southeast Asia. Along
with Singapore, along with Hong Kong and other great cities
in the Southeast Asian region. And the way we do
that is to make sure we have this infrastructure and
really just build up the content.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You know, Jeff Kennet came at Victoria a bit like
that and he turned Victoria into an amazing straight And of.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Course nowadays you have the Formula one at Albert Park
and we know how much of a passionate debate that creative.
And so we believe this is this is our Albert
Park moment and we could really create an exciting opportunity.
The other thing we want to do, though, Lisa, is
that we want to make sure that we build out
(05:44):
the environmental values of that whole precinct. People may not
be aware, but Birdswood Peninsula is actually the site of
an old dump and not just a dump, a highly
toxic waste disposal.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
There was always concern about building up to the Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, I remember when off the shadow Minister for Sport,
we criticized it put in the stadium. Yeah, And so
we want to make sure that we can really build
out the environmental values, particularly along that river's edge where
I mean it's such a beautiful environment. We want to
continue to make sure we consolidate that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, you mentioned Singapore. You're heading to Singapore and Indonesia soon,
so there's a bit going on. Is that part of
the reason to keep those times.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's the ongoing work that we're doing to make sure
that Western Australia can take advantage of the economic opportunities
in the Southeast Asian region. So obviously we're out there
talking to industry groups, talking to governments in the region
to see what opportunities there are. So in particular, I'm
traveling to Surabao in East Java. We have a sister
(06:43):
state relationship with East Java and they're bringing a Surabaian
soccer team over to Western Australia in July. This is
all part of celebrating the thirty fifth anniversary of that relationship.
So I'm going over there just to have some government
and business meetings to continue to promote Western Australia is
a great place to invest and a great place to
do trade with.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now, we are very very grateful to you have kindly
agreed to do a sketch in our poorly drawn Pets fundraiser.
We're raising money for the cat haven. Are you do
you have pets?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I do. I've got a Burmese. It is a fifteen
year old Burmese, and bless him, he's he's getting on
a bit now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
My Burmese is twenty and they do well.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, yeah, a gorgeous little cat. A big shout out
to Terry. And somehow I've managed to be recruited into
this process of trying to.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Draw a well done and I'm looking at the cat here.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
This is a hard to draw a cat.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What you don't remember is it's called poorly drawn pets.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well, I think I can make the expectations of a
drawn pet.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Have a look at a couple of the ones I've.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Done, and you'll feel fineps are not high about that.
But someone's going to have a Roger original the wall
of their cat of what's.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
What's Roger's got? If you put that over, you'll see
the name of.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
The name Extraordinary fan pads or something CATLINI CC fan pants.
This is brilliant, yeah and look great calls to draw
a wonderful job. So I'm willing to humiliate myself by
exposing my dreadful drawing skills.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Best part of the cause, well, We're over twelve hundred
dollars run already.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's an incredible, fantastic well done.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I just think this morning, you know you would have
been in the car and you would have been going
through the agenda.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
You've got a meeting, top level meeting with such and
such cat radio falls.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hey, can I just before we go? Can I just
a couple of shout outs for the w A Studient
Assistants Payment, Right, it's open. This is one of our
key promises from the election. So far, we've had one
hundred and eighty eight thousand, two hundred claims for that,
representing about three hundred and twenty nine thousand students, so
any families haven't yet claimed their WO student Assistance payment.
It's one hundred and fifty dollars for every KINDI or
(09:05):
primary school student and two hundred and fifty dollars for
every high school student in the household. Great cost of
living relief, so we hope everyone takes advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Pushing two hundred thousands.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Thank you for coming in, Thank you for drawing fast.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
To be with you, guys, we'll go and shop in
your fantas
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