Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes. I think you have already done that through the Dockers. The new stadium will be fantastic for Western Australia and for sport. It will enhance Australia's reputation for having stadiums that can host major sporting events.

So the future looks bright for sport in WA. Maybe Perth will, in the future, be in a position to bid for a Commonwealth Games or even for an Olympic Games with its new stadium development. Also there is prospect for another bid for the big one—the FIFA World Cup—at some point in the future. I publicly proposed Burswood as a World Cup venue in 2009 and this may well be an option at some time in the future. We heard from the previous speaker, Mr Zappia, that the opposition is prepared to support this bill, but then he went into a diatribe about the budget that was delivered last night. I will have to check some of those statements because I do not agree with him. If he wants to help the budget and wants to get on with it, he should go to the Senate and tell his people in the Senate to support the repeal of the carbon tax and the mining tax. He should just get out of the way and support this bill and support the repeal of the carbon tax and the mining tax.

I commend the bill to the House.

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