From ‘Axe the Tax’ to ‘Tax the Gas’: Australians have shifted, why hasn’t the government?
Think back to 2010, on the 2nd of May, one week before the year’s federal budget, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is announcing a new Resources Super Profits Tax. Just 53 days and $22 million in mining company ads later, Rudd was out as PM. Now, fifteen years after the Resources Super Profits Tax was abandoned, a new resources tax debate is raging.












