Kingslayer bows to coup d’état miners

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We all know who made the Kingslayer. It was Australian mining that killed Kevin Rudd and his mining tax, putting the knife in Bill Shorten’s hand, who backed Julia Gillard. Later, the Kingslayer struck again, this time to sink the knife into Julia Gillard, as she failed abysmally to sell the groundbreaking carbon price, also vehemently opposed by miners.

Yesterday, the Kingslayer reached around to thank his coup d’état buddies:

“I don’t look out at this crowd and see a room full of class enemies,” he said. “I think this country works best when we work together.”

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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.