PM salutes mining industry

Posted by on July 23, 2007, 5:31pm, 516 views

Prime Minister John Howard was in Kalgoorlie today for the first stop on a three-day tour of Western Australia. He visited the Rural Clinical School and a local engineering firm before attending a Liberal Party fundraising lunch at the Australian Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame.

Predictably, he told the party faithful and supporters the world will come to an end if Labor wins power later this year. The economic good times would be undermined by Labor’s industrial relations policy, he said.

Howard saluted the mining industry and said that, unlike Kevin Rudd, he believed the boom would continue.

He paid tribute to Liberal MHR Barry Haase for his hard work and perseverance on policy pushes for higher zonal tax rebates and flow-through shares.

Howard ruled out a shift on both of those fronts, but said he would continue to listen to the arguments.

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