Martin Ferguson (Batman, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Resources and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

The government is simply proposing to put in place a stable fiscal regime, a regime that is much fairer to industry and certainly much fairer to the Australian community. I ask the House to think about the operation of this royalty regime in past years. Let us think back to the start of this century, when we had a royalties regime in place—

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