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Power and money to thwart the democratic process : Comments
By Gavin Mooney and Colin Penter, published 11/6/2010In the debate on the mining super tax, whither goes our democracy?
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Your memory may be failing you, but every single substanial legislative change we have made in this country - indeed in any country - triggers self-serving, hysterical and irrational whinging of rent-seekers.
We saw it with the gold tax, with Mabo, with the GST (a great Howard reform by the way). Vested interests will always fight reform and try and disguise their own interests as the national interest.
The current well-funded propaganda campaign being fought by the mining industry (in coalition with the Murdoch media) is just such an example.
The fact is the sky will not fall in. Miners will still make significant profits. Workers will still be employed. The resources are not going away. And if these companies don't mine them, someone else will.