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

The government has inherited a Green-Labor legacy of an additional 200,000 unemployed Australians, $667 billion in projected gross debt, $123 billion in cumulative deficits and the world's biggest carbon tax. So it is absolutely vital that the Western Australian economy be unshackled from this legacy of debt, from this legacy of unemployment, and that is why it is important to ensure that the coalition's policies to create the jobs are implemented. We invite the Labor senators from Western Australia and the Greens senator from Western Australia to make that happen here and now, today, by voting to ensure the abolition of the carbon tax and the abolition of the mining tax.