Antinuclear

Bob Brown scathing about the resources tax gift to the big miners

A tax on minerals like uranium should be implemented once the industry was in “boom times” he [Bob Brown, Greens leader] said.

Major parties ‘missing backbone’ on mining tax, Sydney Morning Herald, KATHERINE FENECH, August 2, “…..The CFMEU has launched the satirical ad campaign, which praises Opposition leader Tony Abbott for understanding the pressures facing “ordinary, everyday billionaires”, in response to the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies’ own advertising onslaught against the Mineral Resources Rent Tax.

At the Greens’ national health policy launch in Perth today Mr Brown said both the Liberal and Labor parties were “missing backbone” on the tax and called for former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s Resource Super Profits Tax to be brought back into play.

“We watched the billion-dollar mining industry roll over the parliament in Canberra,” Mr Brown said.

“Tony Abbott fell flat, (he) won’t raise a cent off these hugely wealthy entities for this nation’s future. Labor lost a prime minister and then Julia Gillard backed down with Mr Swan at an expense, as I say, of $10 billion per annum to the future economy.”

A tax on minerals like uranium should be implemented once the industry was in “boom times” he said. Mr Brown also said the mining tax policy would not cost the Greens votes in Western Australia. Greens Attack Labor, Liberals Over Mining Tax

August 3, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, BHP, BHP Billiton, nuclear costs, uranium