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The States and the MRRT: Putting Short-term Politics before Long-term Strategy?
So Fortescue Metals is threatening a constitutional challenge against the Mineral Resource Rent Tax, passed by the Parliament in late March. This is unsurprising: Andrew Forrest has been vocally opposed to the deal negotiated between Prime Minister Gillard and the big mining companies from its inception. And why shouldn’t it? Fortescue Metals has nothing to […]
Posted in Government & Citizenship, Research
Tagged Cadia Holdings, coal, constitutional law, Crown, discrimination, executive power, federalism, Gabrielle Appleby, iron ore, Mineral Resource Rent Tax, national school chaplaincy program, preference, prerogatives, Public Law and Policy Research Unit (PLPRU), Williams v Commonwealth
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