Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

and then are surprised when we seek to answer the question. Of course, in Western Australia on 25 February, just this year, the Premier, Colin Barnett, said:

I have to say that a few people who work around the mining industry came up to me over summer and said, ‘By the way, Colin, the mining companies are getting away with murder; they’re not paying enough.’

As a consequence, the Western Australian government—