Mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has scored an extraordinary PR coup by enlisting two of the nation’s top journalists to turn a two-year-old story.
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Political snippets: Queensland a worry for Federal ALP
Former Premier Peter Beattie wants Julia Gillard to buy a house in Queensland. But what if Queenslanders actually don’t want her?
Crikey Clarifier: How will the mining tax be fought in the High Court?
Mining giants as well as some state governments are threatening to take the tax to the High Court, claiming that it discriminates against states and will unfairly cost businesses. Bianca Kerr asks constitutional law experts how the High Court fight would go.
Political snippets: Labor’s mining tax super con
Linking the super change with the minerals resource rent tax as the legislation wound its way through the parliament was too clever by half.
Crikey Says: Nothing fruity at the ABC’s 7.30
Crikey readers have their say.
Kohler: a mining tax only W. Heath Robinson could love
In 2009 Ken Henry offered a recommendation for a resources rent tax. Two years, three months and one prime minister later, a bastardised version of that idea was finally passed by the parliament.
Relentless fiscal confusion reigns in Canberra
Everyone’s confused about the corporate tax cut associated with the mining tax package.
Essential: Labor returns to the woes of 2011
Labor’s, and Julia Gillard’s support has return to the depths it plumbed during the worst months of 2011.
Essential: we don’t mind Labor’s policies, at least …
There is strong support for several of Labor’s major policies, despite its parlous polling situation, new polling finds.
Is Labor’s ‘poor relationship with business’ such a bad thing?
Labor apparently has a bad relationship with business. But what exactly does that mean, and why do voters not have a problem with it?
Video of the Day: A day in the life of a mining billionaire
Remember those “this is our story” mining industry ads against the mining tax? Well the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union is fighting back with its hilarious “this is the real story” campaign. First up, the “real” story of life as a billionaire miner, complete with caviar for breakfast …
MRRT: a spectacular failure of leadership by all
The MRRT will become law, but it represents a dark chapter in the history of Australian economic reform.
To state the bleeding obvious, more mining tax revenue is better than less
The mining tax is pay for perfect but if it taxed more miners — not just those who mine coal and iron — it would be better, says Dr Richard Denniss of The Australia Institute.
Abbott’s statesman’s hat is so unfashionably last year
I attended Tony Abbott’s address to The Sydney Institute last night with real enthusiasm, expecting to hear something good. However, what we got was 2010 revisited.
Essential: no to uranium exports to India, yes to mining tax
Voters back the mining tax but oppose uranium exports to India, today’s Essential Report shows. And voters are less concerned about a return to Workchoices.
Last week of parliament for 2011
Crikey media wrap: The mining tax, a tax that helped bring down the Rudd government, is likely to pass the House of Representatives this week, capping off a busy year of legislation for Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Wielding power the Rinehart way
Australia’s wealthiest individual Gina Rinehart loaded a couple of Federal MPs onto her private jet and flew them to India for a wedding. But why? Graham Readfearn examines the whos and whys.
Essential: Rudd preferred as crisis leader; election now, say voters
Kevin Rudd’s the preferred choice of voters in the event there’s another financial crisis. But more voters want an election held now.
Political snippets: Better housing news but trend still down.
An encouraging sign in the official Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for April.
In NSW, a renewable energy policy of ill repute
The renewables industry has experienced multiple policy convulsions over the past decade that have stalled its development, but none may be so damaging as the decision last week by the NSW government to make retrospective changes to its feed-in tariffs, writes Giles Parkinson.
Labor exposed and under fire on mining tax
The steady drip of mining profit announcements will expose Labor’s half-baked position on a mining tax. And it has nobody to blame but itself.
Come in Spinner: Gillard’s carbon price campaign outguns Rudd’s
If Kevin Rudd had approached his mining tax, and the emissions trading system, in the way Julia Gillard is approaching the carbon tax, he might still be Prime Minister.
Political snippets: Labor pains in New South Wales
That NSW opinion poll verdict — A remarkable thing about that Newspoll verdict today on politics in New South Wales is not just how poorly Labor is doing but just is how few of the discontented Labor voters have actually turned to the Liberals and the Nationals. The predicted Labor vote is down a massive 15 percentage […]
Stevens’ MRRT lever? Why we must save in the boom
Glenn Stevens has added his credibility to the view that, faced with an income shock that might occur once or twice in a century, the federal government ought to consider a “stabilisation fund” to smooth future volatility in economic conditions.
