Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is there any circumstance under which the government would reconsider the merits of a tax which is costly to administer, costly to comply with and which does not appear to have raised any revenue? Is there any circumstance under which this government would scrap their failed mining tax, or will Labor just try and make up the revenue shortfall by going back to a higher mining tax rate and a broader base?