Queensland Liberal MP Garth Hamilton has commended Australia’s mining sector for sustaining the nation’s economic prosperity during the 90s recession, the GFC, and more recently through the pandemic.
This comes as federal Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers said that Australia’s resources sector has been “a force for good.”
Speaking with Sky News on June 26, Hamilton said while the current policies by the federal environment minister have been a drawback to mining growth, it’s the mining industry that got Australia through tough economic times.
“When everything else went to custard, this is the industry that held up. It’s the industry that got us through the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), it’s the industry that got us out of the 90s recession that we had to have—it’s always been there for us,” he said….