Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment Participation, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the minister refuses to recommit to the Prime Minister’s statement on 6 May that more marginal mining ventures will benefit because state royalties will be refunded—a core assumption in the KPMG Econtech modelling, which the government relied on to assert the increase in investment and jobs—does the government now concede that its tax on mining will cost jobs and investment?