Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to the fact that on the first stage of the Olympic Dam expansion the carbon tax will cost BHP Billiton tens of millions of dollars and to the statement from its chairman, Jac Nasser, who said:

… uncertainty about Australia's tax system is generating negative investor reaction.

I ask the Prime Minister: if BHP Billiton delays its massive expansion of Olympic Dam, will she accept responsibility for the uncertainty and extra cost her carbon tax has created?

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