Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Glencore's announced closure of Mount Isa's copper smelter and the Townsville refinery takes down 30 supply mines and Australia's giant fertiliser plant. Townsville Enterprise estimates 15,000 jobs will vanish. Glencore's incompetence and unpleasantness notwithstanding, gas prices are $16 whilst in Russia and America they're $6. Surely a gas reserve resource policy is imperative. Further, can financial assistance be given on a conditional 50 per cent government ownership basis only to Glencore? Prime Minister, won't rescuing Mount Isa enrich the aquifers of your soul, enhancing your Christianity and patriotism?

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