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

I hear the member for Wannon interjecting again, but that's it—just put it on the tick, on the never-never. So Labor could never have delivered this $500 million; it is a fake. I had a discussion with the member for Pearce today who is a former Treasurer in Western Australia. He said that this was just typical of Labor: always promising money but never delivering. But let's for one moment pretend that Labor somehow would have managed to fix the mining tax to a point where it did raise money. I know it is a stretch, but let's pretend for one moment that they could do it. Even if they had managed to do this, Labor had designated the Perth public transport package as a 10-year scheme. You've guess it: the majority of the money was to come right at the end of that 10-year period when the projects were scheduled to be well underway, if not already completed. Three hundred million dollars of that $500 million was to come from beyond 2020. The truth is Labor were never really serious about delivering it. It was a pre-election stunt.

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