Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes. But we heard the member for Blaxland talking about memory and making statements before elections, and that is what we heard from the former member for Lalor when she made the statement, 'There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.' In 2007—Western Australians heard it loud and clear, and we heard the member for Pearce talk about it in the MPI the other week—Kevin Rudd stood in Western Australia and made a commitment to give the Western Australian people $100 million per year for an infrastructure fund, which we never saw. So, if Western Australians want to know where their voting direction should be, they should keep their memories wide open and say, 'This is the history of the Labor Party and how they treat Western Australians.'

Everyone knows in Western Australia—you can see it in the result of the last election—what Labor think of Western Australians and how Labor treat them. I will just remind them of that. According to the Clean Energy Regulator, Labor's carbon tax cost the Western Australian economy $626 million in 2012-13.

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