My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Mr Dick Karreman, who runs a family owned quarry in Brisbane, who said in relation to the government’s great big new tax on mining:

When you walk into your house in excess of 70 per cent of that house comes out of one of these quarries.

The new home buyers of tomorrow, if this tax is introduced, are going to pay. So I ask the Prime Minister: why does the government want to make it even more expensive for families to own their own homes?