Sarah Henderson (Corangamite, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am quite amused by the member for Burt's contribution today. He spoke of the Canning by-election. He seems to have forgotten that we actually have the member for Canning, who defeated him in that by-election, here on our side of the chamber. Clearly, he has not done a very good job in that by-election, and he has missed the point completely. And I have a message for the people of Western Australia: you vote a Labor government in at your peril—a $48-billion Renewable Energy Target—50 per cent—from Labor is coming your way. A mining tax, a carbon tax and, as for communications infrastructure, in six sorry years under Labor, not one dollar was spent on one mobile base station—not in Western Australia; not anywhere in Australia—under Labor. So shame on Labor! They have completely neglected the people of Western Australia and they have completely neglected regional Australia. Labor's track record on communications infrastructure is a national disgrace, particularly for the people of Western Australia—

Mr Keogh interjecting—

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