Mad King sings top for commodity riches

Tuesday, 15 August 2023

This is an excellent example of how an industry captures a government minister.

I give you Resources Minister Mad King, Australia’s greatest mining propagandist having a whale of a time at The Australian’s Bush Summit:

Resources Minister Madeleine King has issued the Albanese government’s strongest defence yet of the regions and energy and resources sectors, including coal and gas, declaring many east coast urban Australians have lost sight of where their food, prosperity and energy come from.

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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.