Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

and campaign director of the Liberal-National Party—told South Australians he was cancelling projects in their state. We have been at work on this now for about two or three weeks. We cannot find those projects. Nobody can find those projects. Frankly, we are of the view that those projects may never have existed. So, when it comes to scare campaigns about individual projects, we are more than interested in separating fact from fear from fiction, which is important in this debate.

What we do know is that actions always speak louder than words on this matter of the negative impact of the government’s tax reform proposal for the mining industry on the interests of the economy at large and investors et cetera. Best proof positive still lies in that critical investment decision by the member for Dickson, because I am told his BHP shares are still out there doing—

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