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

In my discussions with the mining companies over time, both Rio and BHP—and other mining companies, including FMG—in fact have been providing significant employment programs for Indigenous Australians, and we have welcomed that. In fact, the work that we are doing in terms of GenerationTwo with ‘Twiggy’ Forrest for added employment for Aboriginal Australians, both in the mining sector and beyond the mining sector, has been important. BHP has been one of those companies, which brings me to their share price—on 4 May it was $38.59—

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