Forrest declares mining tax “evil”

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Andrew Forrest isn’t sparing the horses, or the hyperbowl, in going after the MRRT. On ABC radio this morning he announced in the great tradition of Edmund Burke (who didn’t actually utter these words) that:

…his High Court challenge against the federal government’s mining tax is about conquering evil.

All it took for evil to conquer was for good people to do nothing, the Fortescue Metals Group chairman said.

“We’ve decided not to do nothing,” he told

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.