Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I know I have only five minutes—I would love to have a lot longer, and my turn will come—but there are a few things that I think we need to correct for the record. As a proud Western Australian who made my living on the back of supplying the mining towns in the far north and the goldfields, I think there is no more important industry, certainly in Western Australia, than mining. I am not belittling our other industries, which employ a lot of people, but I think we have to clear up the hysterics from the other side and unfortunately from News Corp et cetera—they love to run the hysterics too.

In the last six months I have had the pleasure of assisting the Hon. Gary Gray, the member for Brand—