Is Julia Gillard the new Bob Hawke?
It probably hasn’t escaped folks’ attention that Julia Gillard has expanded the scope of her rhetoric about being consultative beyond the issues of governance, cabinet processes and caucus decision making. In all the statements she’s made since becoming PM, she’s [...]
RSPT becomes MRRT
The RSPT has morphed into the Minerals Resources Rent Tax. I can’t find an official press release yet, but from the press conference the main changes seem to be as follows:
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 the resource super profits tax, mining magnate [...]
Modifications to the RSPT: the AFR version
Yesterday we had the SMH version of the modifications to the RSPT: …The rate at which a super profit is defined would increase from 6 per cent to 11 per cent. The government would drop $1 billion in exploration rebates [...]
Modifications to RSPT: As you were
It’s worth highlighting that the “changes” to the RSPT, which our new PM is about to announce, appear to be identical to what the former PM was about to announce as recently as last Friday. According to the SMH (emphases added): The Herald [...]
Assessing Julia Gillard as PM
A couple of pollsters have been very quick to assess public support for Julia Gillard and Labor, after her unprecedented ascension to the Prime Ministership. Possum has all the details of the latest Galaxy and Nielsen polls, both showing a [...]
RSPT debate rolls on
One aspect of the calls to sort the RSPT out in order to give the government ‘clear air’ (which I think emanate more from the journosphere than from Labor MPs, with the probable exception of Gary Gray) is that there’s [...]
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 has moved on. Over the weekend, the paper made [...]
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, that they’ll be facing a [...]
So how about that media narrative now?
By Mark Bahnisch on June 16, 2010
Over the long weekend, I noted the frenzy The Australian was stirring up about the purported deadline on Rudd’s leadership, built on a foundation of a self-serving article from mining company director Keith De Lacy and quotes from NSW Right [...]
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