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

My question is to the Prime Minister and I refer to this email from Mr Max Mawhinney, who is a beef producer in New South Wales. He states:

Now we have the Rudd resource tax, which will make Ag-lime extremely expensive and significantly reduce the use of this product, in turn reducing the ability of farmers to apply sound management practices to enhance carbon sequestration. Indirectly, it will impact on the cost of food.

Will the Prime Minister apologise to farmers, who will find environmental best practice more difficult to achieve and force up the price of food to consumers as a result of his great big new tax on mining?

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