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 thank the minister for telling me that Gary Gray understands the mining industry. Is that why he opposes Mr Rudd’s great big new tax on mining, and is that why his father-in-law, Peter Walsh, also opposes that? Minister, do you agree with Parliamentary Secretary Gray that the Prime Minister’s repeated refusal to put a deadline on the tax negotiations is creating even more uncertainty in the mining sector and that this uncertainty is bad for the Australian economy?