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 Xstrata’s announcement this morning that it is suspending its planned $586 million expansion of the Ernest Henry copper mine near Cloncurry in Queensland, involving the immediate loss of approximately 60 contractor jobs and a further 160 jobs that would have been created over the next 18 months. Will the Prime Minister guarantee that no worker in the mining industry, or their family, will be worse off under his government’s great big new tax on the mining industry?

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