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BHP, Rio Tinto, aim for rampant ripoff of Australia’s resources

Christina Macpherson 29 June 2010, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto etc paid  lip service to Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in temporarily closing their multi-million dollar advertising campaign against the Australian Government’s proposed super profit resources tax.

They might now be back in force – because it’s no holds barred in the corporate mining world.

Do Australians realise that many responsible national bodies, and some international ones, such as the International Monetary Fund, see this resources tax as necessary and fair for Australians now and in the future?

It’s not an idea that’s unique to Australia. Similar taxes are now in existence in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Chile,  – Venezuela and Mongolia have gone further. Germany is introducing a uranium fuel tax.  Perhaps the days of mining corporations’ rampant ripoff of national resources are coming to an end

June 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews, energy, uranium | Australia, BHP, BHP Billiton, energy, uranium