Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I refer my question to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, there are reports in the Warwick Daily News in my electorate of Maranoa that the government’s great big new tax on mining is a risk to local industries and employment. Does the Prime Minister agree with the Chamber of Commerce President, John Randall:

If business owners get hit by this new tax, they will have to pass it on and that means increases in a huge range of costs, including the cost of building a home in Warwick.

Has the government simply failed to think through the impact of its great big new tax on miners, big and small?

See this speech in context