Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is the minister aware that thousands of current South Australian jobs at OneSteel, thousands of prospective South Australian jobs at Olympic Dam and many, many more elsewhere hang in the balance as a result of Rudd Labor’s new tax on mining? Why is the minister and her government being so cavalier with jobs in our home state, and why won’t the minister represent the workers today that she so proudly claims to have represented in the past?