Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Those comments put Mettam in an awkward position as a political leader in a resources-reliant state which would benefit from the tax measures.
It has also opened up both levels of the party to criticism from Labor,with WA Premier Roger Cook describing Taylor as “anti-Western Australian”.
Taylor said the policy was not a good use of taxpayer money and would not work.
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“This is not how you get manufacturing and resources sectors really firing,” he said.
“We know that from history. It is a bizarre way to try to get those sectors going.”
Later on Wednesday,Mettam confirmed her support for the incentives and said her party often had differences of opinion,but said she would speak to Taylor and her other federal colleagues.