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Thursday May 17, 2012

What we're talking about

  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? To the uneducated I will explain, America supports China from Japanese aggression and in return gets attacked themselves. ... more
  • Bob Lord on More Origin games in Melbourne? No way, one every three years is plenty for Melbournites. All they do is mock our superior NRL game anyway. more
  • Bob Lord on Choice between China and USA? Gee, I don't know. Go with our biggest trading partner whose economy is thriving. Or go with the warmongers whose economy is ... more
  • Richard on Choice between China and USA? Communism or Democracy.Why are we even entertaining the thought?Bob Carr is a nutcase, but gets elevated to Foreign Minister ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Choice between China and USA? Wow, it's easy to engender fear and anger in the digital age, isn't it? And Cry, why do you point out this "history" as ... more
  • John of Caloundra on ACTU calls for casual workers to be ... Absolutely. It's too easy to whack someone on a casual rate and leave them in that situation where they have little job ... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? From 1937 to 1941 a war raged between China and Japan, the USA in support of China put sanctions of raw materials on Japan ... more
  • Amy on ACTU calls for casual workers to be ... As a general rule Casual Employees wages include a component to account for Annual Leave and Sick Leave, that is why a ... more
  • Amy on Tony Abbott on Drive So Bob, when do we see Wayne Swans hidden Robin Hood Suit?You know the one one wears when one robs the rich and gives to the ... more
  • BELLA on Tony Abbott on Drive Exactly....No Carbon Tax or MRRT = No linked INCREASE in benefits, the operative words being LINKED INCREASE, Bob.Which does ... more
  • BELLA on Choice between China and USA? AND SO IT BEGINS...... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? George Bush what crucified by the media and the ALP over his your with me or against me comment. Do not be mistaken, this is ... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Tony Abbott on Drive Bella, once again the socialist minded believe you can solve problems by running up debt and increasing taxes as proven by ... more
  • Bob Lord on PM Gillard with 4BC Breakfast Dear DIckDid you notice that bit in the budget how next year the government will be collecting 24 billion less taxes? That's ... more
  • Bob Lord on Treasurer Wayne Swan Dear RichardGreat thinking outside the box mate. People do use solar powered lighting along their driveways already of ... more
  • Bob Lord on Hockey smacks budget Dear DickReally CHEAP overseas labour working in our mines??? You envisage toilers in the hot sun with a pick and shovel? ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Hockey smacks budget Dick: "don't comment on what you know nothing about"! L-O-L!Should take your own advice I dare say!Ooga booga soshulizms ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Treasurer Wayne Swan Richard, only you on this blog, and nobody else in the world, calls the ETS a broad based consumption tax. That's more ... more
  • Richard on Hockey smacks budget @Bob, don't comment on what you know nothing about.Find out why Gina has gone overseas for cheap labor.Can't get CHEAP labor ... more
  • Richard on Treasurer Wayne Swan @JOCI didn't realise that the Ipswich Motrway was a locally funded project.Just how did we innovate before the ETS. ... more

Mining supertax

Posted by: 4bc.com.au | 20 May, 2010 - 12:07 PM
Keith De Lacy

Keith De Lacy, former Queensland treasurer and current chairman of McArthur Coal, discusses the government’s pledge to instigate a ‘super-tax’ with Greg Cary. The government has been warned that Zambia tried the same tax opportunity and the mining industry collapsed overnight. Have your say.

Blog comments Your Say

  • In my view the Rudd Government didn’t consider the consequences for Australian assets and
    Australian capital flows of announcing a RSPT. Whether they didn’t care is only known by them, but
    it appears to me they either grossly underestimated the violent global reaction to the RSPT, or didn’t
    even consider it.

    Brian Cannon Friday 21 May, 2010 - 11:37 AM

  • Interesting a former labour pollie critising KRUDD!!

    David Woody Point Friday 21 May, 2010 - 10:02 AM

  • No matter what side of the political devide you are on either a rusted on labor Party Voter (or even the left hand of the Labor Party the Greens) or conservative, this article just makes a lot of sense.

    when will Rudd come out of hiding, take his lumps on this, and let things get back to normal.

    You may not think that having the Australian DOLLAR in free fall is a problem ~ remember that we now no longer manufacture a lot, a very lot of our consumables. And if that is not bad enough the approximately $155billion debt we have is owed to overseas bankers and montly to the China government. You may think "Never mind" that our DEFICET is only $42billion last year, the year before that and will be for the next few years, add it all up. When we as a country spend more than we earn it is just like you and I doing the same thing. Living beyond our means, runniing up the Credit Card or drawing down on our mortgage, whatever, sooner or later it is accumulated debt that has to be paid. And at this point in time we are, as a country, racking up that debt at a rate of $100,000,000-00 a day.

    Amy Brunner Friday 21 May, 2010 - 9:53 AM

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