Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

If the feelings of the member for North Sydney are hurt, of course I will withdraw to accommodate the House. Can I also say in response to what the member for Curtin was saying before that I draw her attention to a statement made quite recently by the chief currency strategist of the CBA who, when talking about share market movements in recent times, said:

These are sort of factors that have been going on which are not at all related to the mining tax. And just to further push that point home, some of the shares of the big offshore mining companies such as Vale—

that is the big company from Brazil—

have fallen by a similar magnitude.

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