Martin Ferguson (Batman, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Transport, Roads and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Further to the issue of the resource sector and opening up development, I go to the iron ore sector—an area of substantial investment by companies such as Rio Tinto, BHP, Fortescue et cetera. There is currently a problem with respect to railway access in the Pilbara. What is the government doing to resolve the question of the iron ore supply chains in the Pilbara? What is the government doing to implement the recommendations of its own Export Infrastructure Task Force to introduce ‘an efficiency override’ for applications for the declaration of export related facilities under part IIIA or its associated regimes, or are we just going to continue to go through the courts rather than resolve these problems with government policy decisions?

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