While there are many reasons for the Gillard government’s unpopularity, the sense of illegitimacy that has dogged it since the beginning can only be put down to one factor and today the Greens nail it:
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne will urge the federal government to “fix” the mining tax to raise money for the public purse at a senate inquiry in Melbourne.
…”Witness after witness makes it perfectly clear the government did a deal with the mining companies which essentially gave the government a political win and the mining companies a massive profit win,” she said.
Labor is reaping what it has sowed.
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