Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013, and just from listening to the previous speaker, I am glad that I am.

About the comment that the resources belong to all Australians: I think there are a couple of little imaginary lines drawn on the map of Australia—we call those places 'states'! I think they have an inherent right to call those resources their own. We could get a challenge on it through the courts for a determination on who they are really owned by. The whole principle of the state royalty provisions is to provide that the ownership of those resources sits with the states.

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