Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. As I was saying, only two days later Senator Milne said the Greens would vote against reforms to a tax incentive that will largely affect big mining and resources companies. And why? Because they want to increase a tax on big mining and resource companies. So the Greens profess to oppose the mining industry, yet they say they will vote for measures such as a tax concession to research coal seam gas extraction and improve drilling techniques. Adding to their appalling approach to our plan, we have an opposition consistent in its relentless negativity to workers' jobs in this country. To Labor, nothing is more important than workers' jobs. (Time expired)

Honourable senators interjecting—