Selected political reports:
Australian Treasury Department tax policy 2010.

2013

The Promised Land
Former News Ltd executive Rodney E. Lever has a dream —
where Gillard and Rudd can start working together to defeat Murdoch and Abbott.
17 June 2013
Independent Australia
Excerpt:
My dream today is of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard throwing their jealousies and rivalries out the window and then hurling down the gauntlet to Murdoch and Abbott to start talking about what really is best for Australia.

My dream is for all political parties to forget their petty rivalries and their absurd obsessions with budgets and surpluses and realise that Australia is now richer than it has ever been. >>>more

2010

Gillard seals mining tax deal
by Emma Rodgers
ABC News, 2 Jul 2010
Excerpt: The Federal Government has agreed major concessions with the mining industry in a redesign of its controversial super profits tax. The changes, announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard this morning, include reducing the headline rate of the tax from 40 per cent to 30 per cent.

• Tax renamed the Minerals Resources Rent Tax
• Will only apply to iron ore and coal
• Iron ore and coal will now be subject to a new tax at a rate of 30pc instead of the original 40pc
• Tax will kick in at the government bond rate plus 7 per cent, which would be around 12 per cent
• Oil and coal seam gas to be rolled into the existing Petroleum Resources Rent Tax and taxed at 40pc
• Changes mean the Government loses $1.5 billion of expected revenue. >>> more

PM salvages deal with big miners
by Phillip Coorey
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 2010
Exceerpt: The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, ... to announce the outcome of talks with the mining industry over the controversial resources super tax. >>> more

2011

A snip at $22m to get rid of PM
By Mark Davis
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 2011
HOW much does it cost to bring down a prime minister? The answer: a tad over $22 million.
That's how much the mining industry spent in six weeks last year on its campaign against Kevin Rudd's plan for a resource super profit tax. >>> more

The man who killed Rudd's mining tax
by Matthew Knott
The Australian. November 29, 2011.
Excerpt: Mitch Hooke is the man who co-ordinated one of the most successful vested interest campaigns ever seen in this country: last year's fight against Kevin Rudd's proposed resources super profits tax. He helped bring down a prime minister, saved the miners a fortune and proved that you can be an effective lobbyist even if the government of the day hates your guts. >>> more

Rudd's downfall: written in The Australian
by Robert Manne
ABC News, 5 Sep 2011
Excerpt: Here is an outline of the stories that appeared on the front page of The Australian newspaper between late April and mid-June, following the announcement of the super profits tax. It gives some idea of what someone who bought the paper and was interested mainly in the day's most important news would have learned.

2013

Economics References Committee-Senate Standing Development and operation of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Report,
Parliament of Australia, dated May 2013
Background and overview of the inquiry
1.1 On 5 February 2013, the Senate passed a motion ordering the Commissioner of Taxation to provide this committee, by no later than 15 February 2013, with details of the revenue collected from the MRRT by the ATO since 1 July 2012.