Labor must face its fear of mining

Monday, 20 March 2017

A story from The New Daily today contains some important content:

Just how much money did the Western Australian mining lobby spend in its campaign to unseat Nationals leader Brendon Grylls in his seat of Pilbara?

Enough to remove the leader of a political party from his seat, if the claims can be believed.

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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.