Howes’ hypocrisy

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Well, commentary isn’t much fun today with Australia’s interest groups tearing off the filter. Now it’s Paul Howes who reckons:

“…I’m proud to be a supporter of Julia Gillard,” he said.

“Someone who is prepared to stand up to the shock jocks and the millionaires and the media barons.”

“It’s these people who have the gall to buy an election with a $30 million advertising campaign, just because they don’t want to pay their fair share of tax.

“They’re Australian resources, being mined by Australian workers. But these corporate robber barons in their shiny-arse suits think they own our country.”

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Yet it was Gillard that compromised the RSPT to the tune of $10o billion dollar give or take.

About the author
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.