Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I do not know why my making a phone call is somehow something in my portfolio. There was a reference in the question to Olympic Dam, and I think that everybody recalls the disgraceful way in which the announcement of that project was used and misused by the opposition to try to press their political point and run a politically motivated campaign to try and suggest that a tax that would not apply to Olympic Dam—the MRRT—was somehow responsible for the project being shelved. Other than some of the Greens, who at least had the honesty to oppose the project, the only people who were happy about the Olympic Dam extension being shelved were those opposite. It was an absolute disgrace.