Ken O'Dowd (Flynn, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I think they are doing a great job. You cannot talk about small business without talking about big business, because a lot of small business works for big business. That is what you must consider. The week after the carbon tax was announced in this House, Rio Tinto, a big multinational company, put the Boyne smelter at Boyne Island on the market. It also put its 42 per cent share of the Gladstone power house on the market.

This MPI is about small business, but I am saying that Rio Tinto employed 4,000 people in Gladstone and a lot of subcontractors, who are small—

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