Mr IRONS (Swan) (15:51): Isn't it ironic that the member for McMahon is in here again, spouting about unfair taxes. I am sure he knows more about unfair taxes than any other member of this parliament—maybe the member for Lilley knows about them as well. 'Taxes, taxes and more taxes' is a phrase I am almost certain headlines the Labor Party's national platform and constitution. We sure did see some unfair taxes during those haunting Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years. I am sure those on the other side have a very short memory when it comes to unfair taxes. Those are years tainted by exactly what the shadow Treasurer is claiming yet again here in the chamber. Perhaps he has forgotten it is 2017 and those days are behind. Perhaps he has wiped them from his memory. We can all breathe a sigh of relief that the government is now in the hands of the coalition, who have continued to deliver on our priorities and deliver on our promises. It is the Labor Party that on one hand will tell the Australian people they support the bank levy, but then seem to walk in here every day spouting the big lines from the big banks and what Anna Bligh seems to give them the night before so they can stop the levy. In fact, Labor never seemed to support the concept of fairness; they simply supported whatever made the big business and union monies flow into their election campaigns, all the while telling everyday Australians that they were standing up for them. I would like to take the House and members present on a brief walk down memory lane with regard to unfair taxes, particularly those imposed by those opposite when they were in government— Mr Rick Wilson interjecting— Mr IRONS: And their anti-Western Australian taxes. I see the member for O'Connor, from Western Australia. Let's start with the mining tax. We all remember what the mining tax did to the Western Australian economy. If we look back, it started its early phases with the minerals resource rent tax. It passed the House on 23 November 2011 and passed the Senate on 19 March 2012. Mr Speaker, can you believe a total of $22.5 billion was expected or proposed by those on that side to have been raised over the first four years of the tax, to be spent on pensions, tax cuts for small businesses—which went into the ether and they blamed us for that when it was their own fault—and infrastructure projects. There was a promise of $100 million to the Western Australian economy which never materialised either. In the May 2012 budget, the government said this tax would bring in $3 billion for the financial year. In October 2012, that figure was reduced to $2 billion. On 14 May 2013, it was announced that the receipts were expected to be—can you guess, member for O'Connor?—from $22.5 billion down to less than $200 million. How successful was that unfair tax that was imposed on the Western Australian economy and the Queensland economy by those opposite while they were in government? Mr Perrett interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Moreton has been warned! He is unlucky; I am in the chair. Mr IRONS: They seem to forget that they were imposing unfair taxes and they now sit there, claiming credibility that they are the greatest economic managers the world has ever seen. Still paying back the prepayments of the taxes with regard to the mining taxes is what we are doing. The tax also proved to be complex and expensive to operate. It cost more than $50 million to set up, with estimated running costs of $20 million a year, and advertising came to nearly $40 million. And we cannot forget that other tax which was anti Western Australia, the carbon tax. Again, this was a very unfair tax and we got rid of it. When the coalition came into government we got rid of those unfair taxes that everyone in Australia knew were unfair. Yet, here they are telling us we are imposing unfair taxes. It is the coalition government that is securing our nation's future. We are the government that has delivered a budget that secures the essential services that Australian's rely on, a budget that delivers fairness in ensuring our education and disability services are paid for, and a budget that is supporting economic growth and generating opportunities. I would like to run through some of the ways this government is doing just that. In fact, just today this House is debating our decision to extend the $20,000 instant asset write-off for small businesses by 12 months. We will also pass tax cuts for businesses with turnovers of up to $50 million, legislating the entirety of the small- and medium-business tax cut we promised to deliver under our Enterprise Tax Plan. This effectively allows businesses to grow, invest and employ more Australians, which I am sure every person in this House would support. Our tax cuts will affect 3.2 million small and medium Aussie businesses. If anyone can call that an unfair tax or say that it is imposing taxes on the business sector, they are getting it totally wrong.