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. In Townsville there are zinc, copper and nickel metal refineries. Could the minister advise: will any compensation be made to those refineries for the increases in cost occasioned by the carbon tax of freighting commodities from the North West Queensland Mineral Province and Mount Isa to Townsville for refining and export through the Port of Townsville?