That is the headline in todays West Australian. Julia Gillard has been able to give the nation's miners big concessions to win their backing for a new tax because Treasury massively under-estimated how much the original resources super profits tax would reap. Treasury's MISCALCULATION allowed the new Prime Minister to give the miners generous concessions while losing just $1.5 billion of the $12 billion originally estimated to be earned in the tax's first two years. These are the people leading Australia..
