Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We are carefully considering the Commission of Audit report—as, surely, all members of this parliament would expect us to. Of course it will be published once the government has carefully considered its recommendations. This is no great breach of precedent. We have had the interim report for less than a month. As I recall, the former government sat on the Gonski report for at least two months before it was released. My recollection is that the Henry tax review was considered by the former government for some four months before it was released. We will do justice to the Commission of Audit by carefully considering the report. The Leader of the Opposition suggested that we are hiding something from the voters of Western Australia. The one thing that the Leader of the Opposition is hiding is his true attitude towards the mining tax. The Leader of the Opposition went to Perth last week and was asked about the mining tax—and why shouldn't he be asked about the mining tax; let's face it, it is an anti Western Australian tax—

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