House debates Questions without Notice

Budget

Wednesday, 16 June 2010 House of Representatives

Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

2:57 pm

Therefore, when the Deputy Leader of the Opposition interjects in this debate that mining companies around the world are somehow immune to tax changes in other jurisdictions, she is wrong. Furthermore, in the country that she specifically refers to, there is a debate right now in the Chilean congress to introduce a profits based tax, and the question of optionality goes to the rate of such a tax. Can I say to those opposite, therefore, that when they engage in—

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