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

We know, Senator Sterle, that Mr Rudd is about to do yet another backflip on the great big new mining tax. Deny to me, Senator Sterle, that in the very near future we will hear of some negotiations with the gas industry, which Mr Rudd will hold up as the success of this whole enterprise. He and everybody who drills down into it will know that there is nothing in it for the gas people—and he will also know that the miners will not be part of it. I am currently speculating, of course—unless the announcement has been made in the—