The public policy process has changed significantly in recent years, but not in the way our most prominent rentseeker claims.
Minerals Council of Australia
Business Council of where?
Some of our “Australian” industry bodies don’t quite live up to their titles, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Iona Salter.
Miners dig the new tax
The government has given the mining industry nearly everything it wants — and dramatically slashed the rate that would have applied under the RSPT.
Dear Julia, back down on RSPT. Or else. Love, the mining industry
The Minerals Council of Australia has welcomed Julia Gillard to the Prime Ministership with a demand that she gut the RSPT completely, if there is to be any end to the mining industry’s campaign against Labor.
Sucking the RENT out of RET
The RET is now the only game in town in terms of driving any sort of move to a lower-carbon economy — and it’s being further degraded by rentseekers and whingeing industries demanding a free kick.
Cut out and keep map to 26,000 clean energy jobs nationwide
The coal mining sector will grow strongly with or without an emissions trading scheme in place, writes John Connor.
Deconstructing the mining industry’s ETS data
A panel of Crikey experts deconstruct the mining industry’s job data manipulation for Australia’s emissions trading scheme.
