Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, Miriwinni Lime is a North Queensland, family owned, agricultural mining operation that extracts limestone, dolomite, gypsum and calcium silicate to supply a range of industries across Queensland like the sugar, banana, pineapple, mango, peanut, avocado, maize, dairy, beef, potato and poultry industries. Prime Minister, I refer you to this letter from Russell Wilkins, Director of Miriwinni Lime. He states:

If a 40 per cent mining super tax is extracted from the profit we make, the added cost of our products would impact greatly on the consumer.

Prime Minister, why do you want to impose a great big new tax on Miriwinni Lime, given the impact it will have on this business, the industry it supplies and consumers right across Queensland?

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