question re tax, page-2

Yeah Joridigi, agreed. I have posted this before with no answer.

I'm confused - which one is correct?

Julia Gillard to Laurie Oakes: "And we've seen an argument just like this in this nation before with the petroleum resource rent tax, some 25 years ago. All sorts of doom and gloom claims then. And under that tax regime, we've got the huge, more than $40 billion Gorgon project coming on stream."

or Ross Fitzgerald
From: The Australian
May 22, 2010 12:00AM

"The Rudd government's mining tax will not only apply to existing developments but there is also uncertainty as to whether assets such as in the Northwest Shelf, which were exempt from the Hawke government's tax, could come within its scope."