Companies such as RIO, BHP & FMC stand to make trillions in profit over the next 50 years and it is about time that we review the current royalty regimes so that the average Aussie gets a fair shake of the sauce bottle. We have to consider what resource rich coultries like Norway & Saudi Arabia are doing for their citizens in fairly distributing resource wealth to all.
I know that the Neo-Liberal conservatives ( low tax/small government) advocates will cry wolf but before you do , please consider the following>
Suppose we apply the "self interest" mantra of multinationals such as BHP. RIO & Glencore to the ownership of our resources. Lets suppose that BHP owned all the iron ore in the ground in WA & that Glencore owned all te coal in the ground in Queensland. Just now think for a moment.........
Do you think that the royalty rates would be between 5% & 7%?
Pigs ass! They would jack up the royalty rates to the maximum so that the miners would be just marginally profitable; enough to keep them alive.
Is WA & Qld Governments doing that now and if not, why not? Surely if its good enough for the goose, its good enough for the gander.
Just have a read of the current marketing textbooks in resource management and you'll clearly see what marketing mix means and how optimum
profit can be sustainably engineered.
86% of our mines are foreign owned and in these trying Trump times, dont you think it is an honourable Aussie patriotic goal to put Australia & Australians first; not Multinationals' self interest.
Before rubbishing the idea, just have a squizz at the resource economic management regimes of Norway & Saudi Arabia.
Why dont we import them; we just about import everything else!
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