Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Much of that question went certainly not to me as minister representing Mr Ferguson, but let me refute this for a start. Mr Ferguson has been out there doing his duties as a cabinet minister across his portfolios very diligently and very capably over the last years, particularly explaining the MRRT, as I am doing now. It is a pity that the Greens in this particular instance do not recognise what has happened with the MRRT, but let me try again. As the ATO commissioner noted, collections rose significantly between the first and second quarters, and this is the same time as we began to see some recovery in commodity prices.

We recognise that some states have taken a reckless approach to royalties. I could name them, but I will not. That is why we had the GST review look into this, working with states or heads of treasuries— (Time expired)