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BHPB sets policy for Federal govt, as well as for South Australia’s

We knew that BHP pretty much dictated the policies of the South Australian government – most clearly shown in the Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982 (Indenture Act). which  provides BHP Billiton the legal authority to override the:

• Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988;
• Development Act 1993;
• Environmental Protection Act 1993;
• Freedom of Information Act 1991;
• Mining Act 1971; and
• Natural Resources Act 2004 (including the Water Resources Act 1997).

We didn’t realise that BHP Billiton also holds sway over the federal government

Rudd policy on China ‘set by BHP’ The Age JOHN GARNAUT, BEIJINGOctober 15, 2009 A former senior Treasury official has accused the Rudd Government of caving in to the wishes of BHP Billiton over Chinese investment in Australia, ……

Stephen Joske says BHP bent the ears of senior ministers and exploited the Government’s ”policy dysfunction” to get its way on China.

Mr Joske, who was the Government’s top China economist until he left to join the Economist Intelligent Unit in Beijing in July last year, said the Australian bureaucracy abrogated its responsibilities and Treasurer Wayne Swan opened the door for lobbyists to fill the policy vacuum on China.

”My very strong view is that the key things that got the foreign investment problem going was Government indecision and listening too much to the vested interests of BHP,” Mr Joske told The Age.

”Emails from BHP were circulating at the highest levels, copied in to ministers’ offices, about all the ‘China Inc’ stuff.”……………BHP Billiton yesterday declined to respond.

Rudd policy on China ‘set by BHP’

October 15, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, BHP, BHP Billiton, nuclear, radioactive, uranium