Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

As I have said on numerous occasions, the government is having very constructive discussions with a wide range of companies, both big and small—serious companies that see Australia as a very attractive place to invest and will continue to invest here for a long time. Only late last week the Prime Minister and I and the resources minister met with representatives from Chevron. They are making a $43 billion investment in this economy and are considering doing more—and that is what they said to us in their discussions with us at the end of last week. And there are many companies like that; many companies outside of the petroleum and gas sector are looking to this country. Only late last week we had a report that Peabody was looking at substantially investing more in coal in this country.

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