Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer to those World Economic Forum rankings. The economic rankings across 144 countries also measure the extent to which taxation impacts on the incentives to work and invest. Does the government believe its carbon and mining taxes might have contributed to Australia slipping from 66th in the world to 103rd in the world—out of 144 countries—under the life of the Rudd and Gillard governments?