Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Durack for her question. I recently had the pleasure to visit the member in her electorate. For those of us who take about half an hour to get from one side of our electorate to the other, spare a thought for the member for Durack, who has the second-largest electorate in the world, representing some 60 per cent of Western Australia and 20 per cent of Australia. Prime Minister, your electorate fits into Durack 53,000 times!

Durack is home to some of the largest resource projects in Australia and in the world—the Pluto and Wheatstone LNG projects; the $70 billion Gorgon LNG project; the North West Shelf; and, more recently, the Roy Hill iron ore project, which had its first shipment last December. It is with the resources in Durack that Australia has become the world's largest exporter in the world of iron ore, and by 2019-20 will be the world's largest export of LNG. Durack and the people of Durack are great beneficiaries of the boom in mining, which saw $400 billion worth of investment between 2003 and 2014, record terms of trade, record job creation and record income growth.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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