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Yes, it's called an export tax. Should be on gas too.
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Yes, it's called an export tax. Should be on gas too.
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Not having a tax on the exports, is the biggest can kicking excercise in Australian history and will ultimately cause our decline. IMO
The Royalties scheme, is probably the closest thing we have to a sensible tax on materials, but it isn't much good, if you don't change the price charged from the 1960's.
Brendan Grylls in W.A wanted to raise the Royalies on iron ore to $5 per ton, currently it is hardly anything, well he was quickly ejected from his seat by the miners at the next election.
In reality the only way you will get it in, is if there is a bipartison approach by both political parties, then it has to be addressed.
Currently both sides don't want to address it, because the one that suggests it, cops the wrath of the mining industry about job loses, well that will become less of a stick as the jobs are being automated anyway.
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ScoMo tries to tap on the door to "retweak" his governments CC policy -
and the obvious happens.
Coalition MPs split over Scott Morrison's apparent shift on climate policy
Moderate Liberals seize on PM’s comments to argue the government will do more to cut emissions but conservatives push back
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...tt-morrisons-apparent-shift-on-climate-policy
and the obvious happens.
Coalition MPs split over Scott Morrison's apparent shift on climate policy
Moderate Liberals seize on PM’s comments to argue the government will do more to cut emissions but conservatives push back
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...tt-morrisons-apparent-shift-on-climate-policy
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As he should.Dutton is probably licking his lips again.
Scomo, yet another sellout under pressure from the irrelevant Twitterati.
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The likelihood of another change of PM mid term is zero...
Dutton will have to wait. Not jump the queue. It's his job to stop queue jumping
Dutton will have to wait. Not jump the queue. It's his job to stop queue jumping
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Dutton has no chance of leading the LNP in my opinion, he has worse public appeal than Shorten and that is saying something.
The SMH and ABC are thrashing themselves into a frenzy, but I can't see them being able to keep this on the front page, once winter starts.
The SMH and ABC are thrashing themselves into a frenzy, but I can't see them being able to keep this on the front page, once winter starts.
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Regardless of whether anyone likes ScoMo or not, we need political stability.
He's the leader of the government but he's not the government as such, we don't have a single person running the show, so changing leader once again would bring more negatives than positives no matter who the replacement is.
He's stuffed up yes. OK, let's get the show back on the road and get on with it.
For the record I'd hold the same view if Labor had won the election and it was Shorten under pressure right now. We need stability not a revolving door of PM's.
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I agree fellas but the main reason is because to remove the PM the party now needs a two thirds majority vote and there's no way they'll achieve that against a leader who won the unwinnable election.
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We all agree but you realise as well 50pc of the population will protest , people glued in streets, etc if youFederally - mostly but not all Coalition governments during that time.
States - it varies. Some have been mostly Labor, some Liberal.
Reality though is that the decline set in well before 25 years ago. If you look at Australia versus the rest of the world then depending on what measure you consider, we peaked sometime during the period mid-1960's to late 1970's. Since that time we've quite literally dug ourselves a huge hole and given up on most other things.
A mining tax done sensibly would work wonders. The key is using it as a tool beyond simply a revenue measure.
Eg take the mine at Nhulunbuy as a classic example. Historically they mined the ore and processed the bauxite to alumina to be exported. Then, partly due to Australia's energy debacle but not entirely for that reason, the alumina plant was shut and now they just load the ore onto ships and that's it. If it were up to me then I'd give them a choice - no tax if you process it here (anywhere in any Australian state, no problem if they want to ship it somewhere to process as long as it's in Australia), big tax if you don't. Simple.
Do the same with the rest. No tax on iron ore and coal going into an Australian steel works. Big tax if they just export the coal and ore. Etc. Encourage things like the major expansion proposed for the works at Whyalla, increasing capacity to over 7 times the present production. That sure beats just loading ore onto boats.
The aim isn't to raise revenue but to wield the tax stick to bring about a far greater return on the mineral wealth of the nation. Ideally it won't collect a cent directly - if they process here and avoid it then that's precisely the desired outcome. Tax revenue then comes in indirectly via the broader economic benefits of that value adding.
Same with a lot of things. Use the tax stick to bring about broader development and encourage business to do things here not somewhere else.
open a furnace here: co2 emissions, pollution,road traffic you name it
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ScoMo is not looking good with the public with his handling of the bushfires.
Essential poll: more voters disapprove of Scott Morrison and see him as arrogant
The prime minister’s handling of the bushfire crisis has seen his disapproval rating rise 9 points from 43% in December to 52%
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ove-of-scott-morrison-and-see-him-as-arrogant
Essential poll: more voters disapprove of Scott Morrison and see him as arrogant
The prime minister’s handling of the bushfire crisis has seen his disapproval rating rise 9 points from 43% in December to 52%
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ove-of-scott-morrison-and-see-him-as-arrogant
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No polls until the next election please bas, they are annoying and irrelevant and probably wrong anyway.
Oh for a Bi-election. A brain death on the Co-alition benches would anyone notice.
The walking political corpse of Gussy Taylor.
Wondering why there's an intensive care ambulance parked at the end of that street? There's a sitting government member a few doors down...
There's a feverish intensity to those prayer breakfasts the jabbering in tongues is shake'n the windows...
And doing nothing for a nations confidence.
I think his name was David Elliott(Baulkum hills) ...a man seemingly written out of history. But into Lore: A deraliction A cure A Disgrace. The epitome of the LNP.
The walking political corpse of Gussy Taylor.
Wondering why there's an intensive care ambulance parked at the end of that street? There's a sitting government member a few doors down...
There's a feverish intensity to those prayer breakfasts the jabbering in tongues is shake'n the windows...
And doing nothing for a nations confidence.
I think his name was David Elliott(Baulkum hills) ...a man seemingly written out of history. But into Lore: A deraliction A cure A Disgrace. The epitome of the LNP.
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Are polls even valid anymore?
I thought shorten had it last election.
They made brexit election look like it was going to lose.
Rumpole That's bordering on 'anal'...
It was the NSW police that utilised the term 'Garrad' for their investigation into one of Gussy Taylors detours to fantasy land, it seems his preferred address.
Mind you there's a couple from the Pineapple State in here that wish to usurp Taylor from that Urban dictionary discriptor.
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