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

He is absolutely right because the mining tax represents a huge, sovereign risk impost on the Australian economy. Western Australia exported $83 billion of resources last year. The carbon tax and the mining tax have a very real negative impact on the people of Western Australia. The coalition are absolutely determined to get rid of the carbon tax. We said that before the election and we mean to do it after the election, and we are trying to do it after the election. We are entirely consistent. With the mining tax, we said before the election we wanted to get rid of it. So we are trying to get rid of it after the election. The problem is the Labor Party are being inconsistent. The only consistent thing about the Labor Party is their partnership with the Greens. They keep saying to the Australian people, 'We're two different parties.' I went back to my little book.

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