Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water. Is the minister aware of the quite devastating news that Cement Australia has today been forced to advise its employees at the Rockhampton cement plant that the plant will be closed down? Is the minister further aware that one of the reasons given to workers for the closure is Labor’s proposed emissions trading scheme, which has, to quote Cement Australia’s media statement ‘meant the long-term prospects for the plant have been undermined’?