Bruce Billson (Dunkley, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business, Deregulation, Competition Policy and Sustainable Cities) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s decision not to adopt the Henry review recommendation to exempt dozens of quarry and mining products extracted by small and family business operations from its great big new tax on mining. Does the Prime Minister agree with the respected financial journalist Ross Greenwood and his assessment that the Rudd government’s great big new tax on mining will ‘hit quarries and other basic businesses that mine and make a profit’ and that:

… from building materials, to roads, farms and even the baby’s bum (talc) the Super Profits Tax is again snipping away at your cost of living.

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