Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the recent report on Nine News of his great big new tax on mining and its impact on the Queensland towns on Wandoan and Miles. I refer specifically to Rachel Kerwick of the Miles and District Chamber of Commerce who, in reference to the Xstrata development, said:

We’ve been waiting for this for years. It’s finally here, everyone’s excited. We don’t need the mining tax to ruin it.

Prime Minister, how will these towns survive when these projects do not go ahead because of the government’s bungled big new tax on mining?

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