Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. Does the Treasurer endorse the reported remarks of Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank, Ric Battellino, when he said in reference to mining that the best thing that could happen is for one of the big projects to fall over? Given the Treasurer’s very high regard for the Reserve Bank, which project is Mr Battellino referring to—the South Australian Olympic Dam expansion, the LNG project at Gladstone in Queensland or maybe Western Australia’s Yeelirrie uranium mine? Does the Treasurer have a preference for which big mining project should fall over?

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