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Financial benefit to the Government who have already charged through the nose for mineral rights. It's not the government's prerogative to take taxpayers and shareholders who have invested in good faith in the Australian mining industry and suck them dry. They've wiped $19bn (read: more than...

1 in 8 of these projects might fail, that doesn't matter if they're diversified. If the government moves the breakeven point there will be marginal investments and there will be a negative effect upon investment. Political climates change. Abbott's already pledged to oppose the supertax, who's...

Here's a pretty good case study against neo-Keynesian nonsense: Financial crisis of 2007–2010 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These projects were budgeted for then reevaluated once the new tax came through. Is it really surprising that such a large increase may just have tipped a marginal risk:potential profit ratio over the precipice of unfeasibility?

A 19 year old is not a valid authority to appeal to.

You'd walk. With your feet.

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Company scraps mining work over tax plans - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) First casualty of new mining tax.

Tom Robson is the early frontrunner for worst candidate: You don't give the Union autonomy by increasing its dependence upon university funding.

I wasn't behind it, but I voted for it, because it makes sense.

The whole "International students buy more access cards and therefore get better services" lobby.

The other option was to hand it over to the uni for a multifaith prayer room.

Depends whether the tax cuts are matched with commensurate spending decreases. If they are then the short term effect will be an inflation in goods the populace want, but in the long term this will bring new suppliers into those markets and away from digging holes and filling them in again (or...

Appeal to authority. His area of expertise is embryos, not divine messages. Also sampling bias. You could find tonnes more who refuted that idea.

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So the student laptops have a 100% effective porn filter on them? Why hasn't this been presented as part of the censorship plan?

kaffir and infidel are a-ok, right?

The kind of shit trade unions whinge about: http://bit.ly/ajAwr4 WorkChoices was overblown. If students lost penalty rates for working on the weekend, for example, that's because there's no competitive reason to pay somebody more at a time when he/she can more easily work.

Yeah, now Johnny's dad can't find a job at all. Much better.

Closer ties between countries have made large scale warfare both economically and socially prohibitive. If China and the USA went to war, for example, the latter would lose all their cheap plastic trinkets and the former would need to find a new market for their useless shit.