Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to criticism of his great big new tax on mining from former Queensland Labor Treasurer Mr Keith De Lacy, a man well known to the Prime Minister from his former life. Mr De Lacy has stated that the Treasurer’s claims that the mining sector currently only pays 17 per cent tax are ‘plain wrong’ and, ‘I don’t know where Mr Swan gets his figures from but they don’t bear any resemblance to reality.’ Does the Prime Minister agree with the Treasurer, who said yesterday that critics of the mining tax are ‘either lying to you or they are ignorant’? Is Mr De Lacy lying or is he ignorant?

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