Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I ask the minister: does he use the term ‘blind prejudices’ when he refers to his Queensland Labor colleague Premier Anna Bligh who said that this tax will undermine her efforts to create 100,000 new jobs? Further, Minister, are you aware of the criticism by the mayors of Mount Isa, Cloncurry and Mackay, who all damned this as a big attack on job creation and on small business in their communities?