Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that Minister Ferguson chaired with former BHP chair Don Argus the Policy Transition Group, which recommended that all current and future state and territory royalties on coal and iron ore should be credited, can the minister explain why Minister Ferguson has been invisible in the last few months, why the last transcript on his website is from September 2012 and why he is not out with the Prime Minister and the Treasurer defending the dud of a mining tax that he helped to create?