Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer him to his own statement earlier in question time in relation to Western Australian royalties when he said:

But suddenly out of the blue he comes forward last week and increases his royalties …

Treasurer, do you seriously expect the Australian people to believe you after you received a briefing, a letter, a phone call and all of the correspondence that is yet to be referred to when you claim you had no notice of Western Australian royalty increases and that it came—poof!—suddenly out of the blue?

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