The current war being waged against the Australian Government over the super tax on mineral resources will reveal whether or not the Anzac-Kokoda Track spirit is still alive in the nation or a self deluding notion which has no meaning today. This is not an extreme statement because if the Rudd government is rolled at the ballot box over this issue then the country will be taken over by forces so emboldened they will grind down and browbeat the nation and its workforce. Nominally running the country will be a Coalition government strongly obligated to and directed by mining boardrooms.
In an obvious statement, Treasurer Wayne Swan said that certain mining companies were using standover tactics on other mining companies and others in the campaign against the Rudd government over the proposed tax .
During the June 20 ABC Insiders TV show , Australian Financial Review reporter, Laura Tingle, backed Swan’s claim. She had picked up from the business community outside mining that they were getting “friendly phone calls” from miners saying they would not like their close relationship of the past to be compromised by them coming out in support of the government tax package . “ It is quite savage what has been going on ,” she added.
During the same programme, disjointed utterances by the Lygon Street Lip, right wing commentator Andrew Bolt, let slip why the mining juggernaut , backed up to the hilt by the Coalition, is going for the jugular.
The mining industry, he intimated , would not compromise over the supertax because if the Rudd government were ousted it would save them “ billions.” ( Therefore, spending $100 million on an advertising campaign is a piddling amount.). Bolt almost salivated with glee when he raised the possibility of the ALP “ brand ” being “trashed " in a “Whitlamesque” way .
Believe it or not, he spoke favourably about Julia Gillard, saying that as leader of the government she would be collegiate in her approach, skilful , talented . Hello ? Not so long ago, the Coalition forces were ridiculing her for everything from her dress and hair style , being a union puppet , producing no fruit of the womb and dismissively called her the Red Terror and the Orange Roughy , the latter a fish in danger of being overfished in southern waters . This flattery was no backflip by Bolt, it was artifice designed to add fuel to the bogus suggestion that Rudd should be replaced by Gillard. If the voters, including the ALP, fall for the thuggery , threats and s tandover tactics , expect the deluge .
In an obvious statement, Treasurer Wayne Swan said that certain mining companies were using standover tactics on other mining companies and others in the campaign against the Rudd government over the proposed tax .
During the June 20 ABC Insiders TV show , Australian Financial Review reporter, Laura Tingle, backed Swan’s claim. She had picked up from the business community outside mining that they were getting “friendly phone calls” from miners saying they would not like their close relationship of the past to be compromised by them coming out in support of the government tax package . “ It is quite savage what has been going on ,” she added.
During the same programme, disjointed utterances by the Lygon Street Lip, right wing commentator Andrew Bolt, let slip why the mining juggernaut , backed up to the hilt by the Coalition, is going for the jugular.
The mining industry, he intimated , would not compromise over the supertax because if the Rudd government were ousted it would save them “ billions.” ( Therefore, spending $100 million on an advertising campaign is a piddling amount.). Bolt almost salivated with glee when he raised the possibility of the ALP “ brand ” being “trashed " in a “Whitlamesque” way .
Believe it or not, he spoke favourably about Julia Gillard, saying that as leader of the government she would be collegiate in her approach, skilful , talented . Hello ? Not so long ago, the Coalition forces were ridiculing her for everything from her dress and hair style , being a union puppet , producing no fruit of the womb and dismissively called her the Red Terror and the Orange Roughy , the latter a fish in danger of being overfished in southern waters . This flattery was no backflip by Bolt, it was artifice designed to add fuel to the bogus suggestion that Rudd should be replaced by Gillard. If the voters, including the ALP, fall for the thuggery , threats and s tandover tactics , expect the deluge .
