James Watson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Australia Institute. James Watson is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. A graduate of the Australian National University’s School of History, he has written on the intersections of politics, economics, and social movements for The Guardian, History Australia, and Labour History.
You have probably read that Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. This makes him the richest person in the world. But, does it also make him richer than most nations? Some parts of the Australian media seem to think it does.
The nation has been through wars before, and history shows us that national governments have tended to let extractive industries dictate tax policy during these periods.
