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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I further ask the minister: how can families living in mining communities in Northern Australia plan for their futures with any degree of certainty when this government has now admitted that the great big new tax on mining has created uncertainty in the mining industry? Minister, what is the government going to do for the families of the 60 contractors at the Ernest Henry mine who are already suffering as a direct result of this great big new tax on mining?