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

My question is directed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the plight of Wallis Drilling, a company that operates 40 drill rigs and employs about 225 people. Since the announcement of the Prime Minister’s great big new tax on mining, Wallis Drilling has cancelled orders for two new drilling rigs worth about $5 million in business to other firms and has also suspended plans for a $1.5 million extension to its workshop. This means less work for engineers, boilermakers, painters, mechanics, builders, carpenters and plumbers. When will he stop pretending that his new tax is somehow good for the mining industry and listen to the concerns of real people like those at Wallis Drilling and dump his job-destroying tax?

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