House debates

Thursday, 23 August 2012

Questions without Notice

Mining, Carbon Pricing

2:34 pm

Photo of Andrew RobbAndrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Coalition Policy Development Committee) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. With regard to the facts, I refer the Treasurer to this statement from the Chairman of BHP just six weeks ago, when he said:

… I cannot overstate how the level of uncertainty about Australia’s tax system is generating negative investor reaction.

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… on a global basis we are at the upper end of overall taxation levels. That means we are not competitive …

Will the government now review the impact of its mining and carbon taxes on resources to investigate whether shelving of the— (Time expired)

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