Simon Crean (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

This, after all, was the city that the Leader of the Opposition went to on 27 April 2011 and had this to say:

Whyalla will be wiped off the map by … carbon tax. … Whyalla risks becoming a ghost town, an economic wasteland … it's also true of Port Pirie … Gladstone … Hunter Valley … Illawarra … Kwinana … Latrobe Valley, Portland …

There'd be nothing left under this bloke. This is the doom and gloom that he preaches.

But what are the facts? It is interesting that the leader has not been back to Whyalla since he made that prediction. I have been back four times and I have seen the magnificent growth that is taking place there. The rare earths industry—

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