Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to this letter to shareholders from OneSteel Chairman Peter Smedley, and I quote from it:

The Whyalla and Newcastle businesses in total employ approximately 4,000 employees and contractors. Any adverse impact on OneSteel also has flow on implications for our employees and these local communities in which we operate.

Deputy Prime Minister, were you, as part of the kitchen cabinet, and was the Prime Minister, whom you are representing here today, aware of the implications of the super profits tax on OneSteel’s steel-making operation when the Treasurer announced the tax in his budget?

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