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:
Minerals Resources Rent Tax, eh?
A thread for you to discuss the news about the renaming and renegotiation of the erstwhile RSPT to your heart’s content. [This thread is now closed due to the clash with Brian's thread oops!]
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 [...]
ABC claims move against Rudd is on
ABC tv news has just claimed that a move against Kevin Rudd’s leadership is on tonight, emanating from Victoria and including “senior ministers”. Tomorrow is the last sitting day of this session of parliament. There’s nothing on the web so [...]
RSPT – mining industry to eschew negotiations, fight to the death?
Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer have a story in Crikey today reporting that the mining industry will resist a compromise with the Rudd government on the RSPT: The mining industry will reject any compromise offer on the government’s RSPT proposal, [...]
Marginal seat polling and the Rudd government's position
Paul Norton observed here at LP yesterday that we’re in uncharted psephological waters, with both major parties on low primaries and both leaders relatively unpopular. A host of questions have therefore arisen: about the likely flow of preferences from The [...]
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 [...]
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