Peter Martin nails it with his great story today - here.
Whose idea was the "super profits based tax" on the mining industry? None other than “The Minerals Council of Australia” - in 2008!
It says a lot about the games that are now being played by big business, the mining industry and the far right media - that when these ideas are taken up by the government of the day - the moguls just change their mind and want something else - while bagging the first idea and manufacturing more FUD.
This theme is happening across a range of policy areas. We saw it recently with the CPRS deferral. All of a sudden the *numbnuts* in opposition developed a confected concern for the environment - despite the fact that they have opposed taking any action with carbon.
Bill and Betty Bogan next door must be seriously confused about what the monk and his cronies actually stand for.
We urgently need to encourage and support an independent media in this country that is willing and able to expose these political shenanigans.
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