House debates

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

2:06 pm

Photo of Greg HuntGreg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of the comments of John Hannagan, local chairman of the world's largest aluminium company:

China is now the major competitor in both smelting and refining. Future investment will go offshore.

Given that the Treasury modelling shows a 61 per cent decline in aluminium production under the carbon tax, how many warnings does the Prime Minister need before she acknowledges that the only way to prevent aluminium jobs going to China is to scrap the world's biggest carbon tax?

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