Slade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yet the cheerleaders from the Greens, who are egging on Tanya Plibersek and the Labor Party in kicking this can down the road, are just hoping they're going to be in a position where they can force a minority Labor government into blocking it completely. The damage that would do to the Western Australian economy should not be lost on any Western Australian. If you are a FIFO worker; if you are involved in the oil and gas industry; if you're involved in any part of the manufacturing sector in WA—and 70 per cent of Western Australia's industrial energy comes from gas—if you are one of the many tens of thousands of households in Perth that rely on gas; and if you are one of the many tens of thousands of workers that rely on, yes, supplying gas to key allies overseas like Japan, then, for goodness sake, Australians, this is what you're going to vote for. The Greens will be wagging the Labor Party dog.

It's already a dog of a government, but, if we have a minority Labor government after the next election, then the Greens are going to be wagging that Labor Party dog of a government, and it will be terrible for Western Australia. It will be an extraordinary imposition not just on major businesses but on every individual Western Australian.