Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

And industry has signed up to it. Is that right? Twiggy Forrest, Gina Rinehart and a whole lot of other people who would consider themselves from time to time part of the mining industry would say that industry has not signed up. We really look forward to seeing that bill in this place. I know there is a history in the Labor Party of giving ministers hospital passes. Look at poor old Peter Garrett on the receiving end of pink batts and green loans. What about the former Minister of Education, Julia Gillard, who was on the receiving end of the BER program that she thought was a great idea—such a great idea that she had to commission an independent inquiry into it? But there is more to come out of that today, I suspect. Now we have a Minister for Resources and Energy who thinks that it is a great idea to tax the resources industry. Mr Deputy Speaker, I know I am indulging here a little—

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