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

My question is to Senator Carr representing the Minister for Resources and Energy. I was fascinated by Senator Carr’s answer to Senator Cormann when the minister said that this great big new tax on mining was all about growing jobs. I ask the minister: how does he reconcile that statement with the statement by Queensland’s Labor Premier Anna Bligh, and her damning criticism, that this tax grab on the resources sector will ‘undermine efforts to create 100,00 new jobs in Queensland’?