Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I will tell you what the government are doing to help the mining sector to flourish: we are scrapping the carbon tax and we are scrapping the mining tax. We do not treat coal as a pariah, as members opposite, thanks to their alliance with the Greens, are doing. The Greens are telling members opposite to treat coal as a pariah. This government will never treat coal as a pariah industry. We want it to expand. We want employment and investment in the coal industry to expand. That is why we want to scrap the carbon tax and scrap the mining tax. If members opposite were serious about giving the coal industry a future, they too would vote to terminate the carbon tax.

The other thing we want to do is boost our infrastructure.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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