Twiggy shifts inquiry campaign to WA

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

From the AFR:

After failing to convince the Abbott government to run an inquiry into the iron ore market, Fortescue Metals Group is understood to be quietly agitating for Plan B – an inquiry in the West Australian Parliament.

Premier Colin Barnett is opposed to a parliamentary inquiry into the iron ore market, and while his stance lengthens the odds for Fortescue, it is not an impossible task.

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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.