Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

with $3 billion worth of taxes taken off the backs of exporters as a result of our tax reform policy a number of years ago, and continuing to reduce the levels of income tax, state Labor governments are lazily increasing taxes on our export industries. This should be an issue in the Queensland election on Saturday, because the Beattie Labor government wants to levy a $4 a megalitre tax on irrigators in Queensland.

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