Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that this great big new tax will raise $9 billion per year compared to the $8 billion per year interest repayment required in 2012-13 to service Labor’s great big debt, doesn’t this just prove that the government is raising taxes simply to pay for its reckless spending to the detriment of jobs in the resources sector—or is it all just a great big coincidence?