Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Whilst the member for Fremantle is still with us, and considering her recent arrival in this place, she might like to wait for a minute to get a little bit of history on some of the things she has just said. She suggested that people should take the bus. The Richard Court government in Western Australia ordered three hydrogen fuel cell buses, and the other day the Carpenter Labor government sent all their working parts back to Germany. Why? They did not like paying the extra cost of running hydrogen fuel cell buses, which are 100 per cent emission free. That is your Labor position on saving the environment in Western Australia. There were three buses in perfectly good condition. I tried to get hold of one of them to at least take it to a practical inventor in my electorate for the purpose of turning these buses they proposed to wreck into a fuel cell tractor. They were 300 kilowatt, 400 horsepower. All the working parts have gone back to Germany from whence the buses came. And there could only be one excuse: the Carpenter government did not like paying the extra for a clean environment.

Then there is a challenge against the Howard government in terms of infrastructure in Western Australia. It was interesting the other day to see some coverage of the Bunbury Freeway, which the minister for transport—

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