Beverage industry spokesperson Alec Wagstaff said the industry had spent several hundred thousand dollars opposing the Australian Greens, which had supported the schemes in these states. Former Western Australia shadow minister John Hyde said beverage industry lobbyists raised the suggestion of campaigning against Labor members if proposed container deposit scheme legislation in that state was not dropped. Former treasurer Delia Lawrie also claimed that Coca-Cola offered to fund the Country Liberal Party to oppose a container deposit scheme, a claim the company strongly denied.