Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

When bad governments like the Gillard government do bad things, like the mining tax, through a bad process, things inevitably end up in tears, and after that they have to come up with secret deals to try to fix things up. They have to come up with a cover-up, one involving government secrecy. That is what we have seen ever since the Rudd government's Resource Super Profits Tax ended up in a big lot of tears. It was that government that came up with this massive new tax on the mining industry, without going through a proper process and without any consultation, excluding the states and territories—

Senator Wong interjecting—