Ken O'Dowd (Flynn, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

They talk about Clive Palmer; Clive Palmer is the man who saved a thousand jobs in Townsville at the zinc refinery. How many people does Gina Rinehart employ?

The wind-back on the solar hot water scheme: does anybody in the government realise what that meant to those businesses that had geared up to look after that industry? It just flattened them—bang! Finished. Those opposite rave on about the BER. I could tell you something about the BER. There were four examples in my area where small business could have done the job of building the BER—

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