that the wind down in the investment phase of the mining boom has had a real impact on many communities around Australia.

Opposition members interjecting—

I think honourable members should perhaps stop guffawing and listen for a moment. The fact is that the Western Australian economy has been driven by a massive investment boom in constructing mining projects. I was discussing this with a number of fly-in fly-out workers on the train back from Mandurah only the other day, and they—

Mr Perrett interjecting—