Mr Gray says Federal Treasury modelling shows WA will record the country's strongest economic growth under a carbon price.
He says the WA economy is forecast to more than treble in size by 2050.
Mr Gray says the WA government is trying to hide electricity price rises under a carbon price that has not yet come into effect.
"Mr Barnett and Mr Porter have increased the price of electricity without a carbon price and they aren't compensating anyone," he said.
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Gillard leading WA up the carbon path, according to WA Treasury report
Ms Gillard has consistently said that tax cuts and increases in welfare and family benefits would deliver an average compensation of $10.10 a week.
She has made no secret of the fact that the aid, designed to offset a $23 a tonne carbon tax on the nation's 500 biggest polluters is designed to help the nation's low-to-middle income families.
Households with a combined income of more than $120,000 are big losers because they won't qualify for many of the sweeteners, and today's report shows that 242,000 households in WA fall into that category.
Opposition Leader Eric Ripper said yesterday "it was the height of hypocrisy" for Mr Porter to blame Ms Gillard for hikes in utility charges given the WA Liberal-National Government's 57 per cent increases in electricity charges since 2009."Mr Barnett has savagely increased the price of electricity without any compensation for anyone," Mr Ripper said.
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Carbon tax will cost WA families $144
State opposition spokeswoman Michelle Roberts said Mr Porter's comments were nothing but "political scare-mongering."
"It's just speculation about the carbon tax and it's all hypothetical," Ms Roberts said.
“I think people know what's gone on in Western Australia in the last three years - I think they've looked at their gas, water and electricity bills and they know that Colin Barnett does not give a jot about their household charges. This is nothing more than anti-Canberra politicking.”
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