Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Water) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. It relates to the terms of reference for consultation with the resource industry through the resource tax consultative panel, which has been instructed by the government that it will not be consulting on the key parameters determined by the Australian government. I refer the Prime Minister to comments of his resources minister, who last week said the government’s great big new tax on mining would cause the resource companies to review their investment plans given that these projects were ‘finely balanced’. Will the Prime Minister continue to rule out any modifications to the parameters of his great big new resource tax?

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