Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister: Glencore's decision to terminate Mount Isa's copper production abolishes one-fifth of the north-west's economy. The abolition of Queensland's reserved resources policy, corporatisation of rail and electricity, and Queensland's decision to impose crippling ALP environmental laws unleashed skyrocketing cost structures. Could the PM restore cheap electricity by reintroducing the 1980s reserve resources policy and rescue the north west by barring embarrassingly ridiculous laws in an outback town 1,300 kilometres from the nearest city?

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