Senate debates

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Questions without Notice

Emissions Trading Scheme

2:09 pm

Photo of Ron BoswellRon Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Minister, you did not model the white paper. How can the Queensland coal industry be competitive against China, Indonesia, Colombia and other countries when no other country in the world places a tax on fugitive emissions? Won’t Queensland miners be noncompetitive with a charge of $2.4 billion and be forced to shed more jobs?

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