So intense has the standoff between BHP and the Albanese government become that the parties are even contesting who started the fight.
Today’s Albanese-led Labor government is generally more business-friendly, and BHP is a more socially aware institution that tends to shy away from overt confrontation with governments. But the mining industry has shed any veneer of polite dialogue with the government now when attacking same job, same pay law, and is busting for a fight over new industrial relations laws with a smattering of complex environmental reforms.
It was the “killing the golden goose” argument – that undermining the mining industry on which our country’s economic fortunes are built would damage all its citizens, not just the mining company executives and shareholders.And it worked, with the campaign successfully frightening the public into siding with the mining industry.
She went on to say that the company was a significant contributor to national GDP, injecting $50 billion into the Australian economy last financial year.
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