Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The short answer is: no, I have not. The second part of the answer is that Liberal members and senators from Western Australia are very strong advocates for the great state of Western Australia. The first thing we did after the most anti-WA government in the history of Australia, the Gillard Labor government, which gave us the anti-WA mining tax and the anti-WA carbon tax and which created chaos and dysfunction at our borders with illegal boat arrivals as far south in Western Australia as Geraldton—if Julia Gillard had been Prime Minister for another few months, we would have had illegal boat arrivals coming up the Swan River in Perth—