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By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2010
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 is here. Peter Martin has picked out [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Markets, Policy, Politics | Tagged ABS, ALP, campaign, Crikey, data, Labor, Miners, mining companies, Peter Martin, possum, profitability, profits, resources rent, resources tax, rspt, Rudd government, super profits |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 13, 2010
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 (which would, of course, in the [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, campaign, Coalition, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy, Geoffrey Barker, graham richardson, Greens preferences, inside story, Julia Gillard, keith de lacy, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, media narrative, Miners, mining industry, Nielsen, Peter Walsh, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, preferences, Queensland, resources rent, resources tax, rspt, Senate, The Australian, The Greens, WA, Western Australia, Westpoll |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 4, 2010
The CFMEU’s YouTube ad [via tigtog at Hoyden]:
Posted in Advertising, Film, TV, Video etc, Politics | Tagged campaign, CFMEU, it's going to ruin us, Miners, mining industry, resources rent, rspt, Video, youtube |
By Guest Poster on June 1, 2010
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 weekend Ross Gittens argued that royalties are operating [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged mining, mining royalties, resources rent, resources super profits tax, resources tax, rspt, tax policy, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2010
Wayne Swan recently said that mining company executives were either lying or displaying their ignorance in their statements about the Resources Super Profits Tax, a comment which apparently horrified Kerry O’Brien: how could this be true of respected business leaders? [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, Ben Chifley, executives, Fortescue, Gary Morgan, ideology, John Quiggin, John Ralston Saul, Kerry O'Brien, Labor, Media, minerals council, Miners, mining companies, mining industry, public interest, Q&A, Qanda, resources capital, resources rent, rspt, Rudd government, scare campaign, socialism, tax, Wayne Swan |
By Kim on May 25, 2010
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 prosperous mining companies… Essential Research: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/05/rspt1.png"
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged Dennis Shanahan, Essential Research, Media, Polls, public opinion, resources rent, resources tax, rspt |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Politics | Tagged australian workers union, AWU, Miners, mining industry, resources, resources rent, resources super profits tax, rspt, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 10, 2010
Wayne Swan’s note on the effects of the RSPT is well worth a read. Update: John Quiggin on the RSPT.
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics | Tagged Miners, mining industry, resources rent, resources super profits tax, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 6, 2010
A couple of snippets from today’s papers: MINING giant Rio Tinto has shelved plans to spend $11 billion expanding its massive iron ore operations in Western Australia because of the wave of uncertainty sparked by the Rudd government’s proposed tax [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Policy, Politics | Tagged capital, capital strike, Capitalism, democracy, Federal Election 2010, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Miners, Paul Keating, resources, resources rent, Robert Gottliebsen, rspt, Rudd government, super profits |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
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 the Rudd government is planning to redirect [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, Sociology, Women | Tagged business, capital, casualisation, globalisation, Henry review, Ken Henry, Miners, mining industry, population, resources rent, resources tax, rhetoric, Rudd government, super, super tax, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
Who are the golden geese?
By Kim on May 5, 2010
A couple of interesting pieces appeared today about the self-serving claims of the mining industry about the Resources Super Profits Tax, dutifully echoed by journos and opposition pollies, and it would now appear, Anna Bligh. Bernard Keane:
Posted in Economics, Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged abc, Anna Bligh, bernard keane, commentariat, Economics, Henry review, James Farrell, journalists, Kevin Rudd, Media, Miners, mining industry, Policy, public finance, resources, resources rent, resources super profits tax, tax, Wayne Swan | 58 Responses