Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Water) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his previous answer on North West Shelf taxation. Does he stand by his answer or does he stand by his resources minister, whose office told the Australian newspaper yesterday:

Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s office yesterday confirmed the huge West Australian LNG project, which is exempt from the offshore petroleum resource rent tax, would be taxed under the proposed resource super-profits tax.

Further, a spokesman for Mr Ferguson said yesterday that the project, like all resources projects not under the PRRT, would fall under the new tax system.

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