Martin Ferguson
To put it bluntly, which job would you pick for your child: Ripping precious minerals from the soil for sale to Chinese billionaires, or mixing daiquiris for sale to Chinese billionaires?
It’s not an easy choice for a parent to make, and it has been just as hard for the Government.
Just 18 months ago the general idea was that the best labour management strategy was make sure all hands were on the mining boom pump.
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You couldn’t invent Clive Palmer. Well that’s not quite true, you could invent Clive Palmer, but you’d be told to go back and come up with something that was less of a caricature for a mining boss.
The Queensland mining magnate billionaire is quickly becoming the chief vioce of industry opposition to the Government’s Resource Super Profits Tax, and the Government love it.
Palmer is an easy target for the Government, epitomising every stereotype of a self-interested fat cat capitalist, a mere monocle and waistcoat away from being a cartoon character. As one Labor strategist said of Palmer “he’s our Joe McDonald.”
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