David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

‘We will wait till an inquiry. They can just wait. They can just wait till next year for the inquiry. Make ends meet and wait until we’re ready to give you something in your pension.’ Infrastructure bottlenecks: another well-worked mantra through the focus groups. Little does anybody understand or know that the Commonwealth controls not one single infrastructure bottleneck. The states control the lot. The education revolution: this is a government of the most spun mantras I have ever heard. ‘We’ll keep grocery prices and fuel prices down.’ ‘We’ll end the blame game,’ and ‘We’ll bring cooperative federalism.’ Here is cooperative federalism working as it has never worked before: a drive-by shooting, a raid on the pockets of every Western Australian. We will not forget this.