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

It is a very good question, and it is no surprise that it comes from a Western Australian who went to the last election advocating the repeal of the carbon tax and the mining tax, because it is in the best interests of the people of Western Australia to get rid of those taxes. The member for Durack is not the only person I listen to carefully from Western Australia. I have been thinking carefully about the member for Perth over there, who has just had a meteoric rise; she is now not just a spokesperson for Perth but for the Labor Party in the whole of Western Australia. I reflected carefully on her words last week when she said, 'I think it would be fair to say the mining tax has not done the job that it was designed to do.'

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

That's what I think. It was not doing the job it was designed to do.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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