Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Prime Minister and I refer him to last night’s postbudget statement from the Business Council of Australia that ‘if the resource boom were to falter or be killed off the whole budget would collapse in a heap’. Given the deferral by Santos of a decision to proceed with a $15 billion LNG project in Gladstone and a review by BHP of its $17 billion Yeelirie uranium mine, can the Prime Minister guarantee that his great big new tax on mining will not cause the resource boom to falter?

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