Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying earlier, I do not accept the argument from the opposition, where they are locked arm in arm with the mining industry, and advancing the myth—and that is what it is: a myth—that there was no consultation. There was consultation. I would draw your attention to a speech I gave on Monday evening at a tax forum in Sydney, where I listed four pages of precise consultation with sections of the mining industry in the independent tax review. There was comprehensive consultation on the issue of the structure and the design of the taxation of the mining sector in this country.