Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I note weekend reports of Mr Shorten desperately pleading with Western Australians to give him and the ALP a fresh start on 5 April. That would be a fair request if there were a fresh suite of policies being offered to the people of Western Australia, but it is all the old, stale policies of the defeated Labor government that are being served up yet again to the people of Western Australia: a commitment to the carbon tax, a commitment to the mining tax, a commitment to defending the out-of-control CFMEU and a commitment to green and red tape. I simply remind those opposite that the Labor Party cannot have its Senate lead candidate in Western Australia saying the carbon tax is gone and then his very own leader and all the Labor senators, including the Western Australian Labor senators, voting to retain the carbon tax here in Canberra.