DUTTON MINERS’ BFF
Peter Dutton’s planned remarks to the Minerals Council of Australia later today have led the news overnight, with the opposition leader set to declare he will be the best friend the mining sector “will ever have”.
The ABC reports Dutton will say he plans on “turbocharging” more than 420 mining and energy projects. Speaking at the council’s conference in Canberra this morning, the Coalition leader will also reference the industry’s concerns over the government’s industrial relations and environmental laws, the broadcaster said.
“Not since the days of imposing a carbon tax on your sector, or a mining tax on your sector, has a prime minister and a government been so out of touch with the need to keep our mining and resource sectors strong,” Dutton will say.
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