"I am glad that Tony Abbott has brought the Opposition on board"
DLP Federal Secretary and Queensland’s DLP Senate team leader Tony Zegenhagen has welcomed the Opposition’s decision to vote against the Rudd Government’s so-called “Super Profits Tax” on the Mining Industry, a decision announced on Thursday 6 May 2010 by Opposition Leader Hon. Tony Abbott MP.
On behalf of the DLP Tony Zegenhagen issued on Tuesday 27 April a media release stating that the DLP would fight any Resource Rent Tax, describing the Henry Resource Rent Tax proposal as “a major threat to Queensland jobs and Queensland’s prosperity . . . (with) grave and unpredictable effects on investment decisions.
“I am glad that Tony Abbott has brought the Opposition on board in opposing this dreadful tax attack on a fundamental Australian industry,” said Tony Zegenhagen. “I remain disappointed that the Opposition declined to make a commitment when the DLP spoke out on 27 April. An earlier unequivocal promise to reject the punitive tax and to defend mining industry jobs could have helped to reassure investors, and might have helped ameliorate the stockmarket rout caused by the Government’s announcement.”
In a media release headed: Rudd Robs Superannuation Funds on 4 May 2010, Tony Zegenhagen announced “The Rudd anti-mining tax will take more value out of superannuation than the government’s promises will ever put back in.”
Tony Zegenhagen concluded with the observation that mining offers a great incentive for decentralising the Australian population. “I feel for all the thousands of families who will lose the opportunity of enjoying life in rural Australia, who will be forced to relocate to expensive city living where jobs are hard to find.”
