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The Mining industry and the Super tax

I get really annoyed when journos and biz types refer to mining companies as “miners”. Miners are not companies, but workers; the workers who actually generate the windfall profits a portion of which...

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Cigs up, Labor down? Nielsen 2PP 50-50

Possum parses the latest Nielsen poll over at Pollytics: We don’t usually see these types of dramatic changes in the polling unless we either have a new leader (but Abbott has been here for months), a...

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Press opinion of public opinion

Dennis Shanahan: The Rudd government, incredibly, has lost the fight over the RSPT. A Labor government has been unable to win popular support, or the policy argument, for lifting taxes on wealthy and...

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So what if royalties (and the RSPT) are operating costs – not taxes? Guest...

John Davidson is a process engineer who worked in the construction and mining industries in various locations around Australia for many years. Earlier discussion on the RSPT is here and here. Last...

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Doom or salvation for Rudd Labor?

I continue to be quite surprised at the levels of panic about the Labor party’s current polling predicament, and some of the reactions. The government’s response to the Nielsen poll yesterday was to...

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Some super profitable companies could pay 58 per cent tax

That’s pretty much what Wayne Swan said in this exchange on the Four Corners report on the RSPT: SARAH FERGUSON (to Wayne Swan): The Minerals Council is arguing, as are major players in the industry,...

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Why Labor may lose the 2010 federal election

This weekend’s seen the latest installment in the ‘media narrative’; demands in The Australian for either a Labor leadership change or a quick cave-in by Kevin Rudd to the mining industry on the RSPT...

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Media narrative demands Rudd's head on a platter according to Newspoll timetable

By way of ‘progressing the story’ from Saturday’s round of demands for Kevin Rudd’s political execution from has been Labor figures and mining company director Keith De Lacy, The Australian‘s caravan...

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Possum on how exactly super profitable mining companies are

There’s been some discussion on another post about Possum’s piece on the super profitability of the mining industry, so I think it’s appropriate to have a dedicated thread for the topic. Possum’s post...

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Twiggy Forrest wants more; miners up ante on Gillard

The Financial Review is full of quotes from Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest today: Labor powerbrokers removed then prime minister Kevin Rudd just 24 hours before he was to make a significant policy shift on...

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