how long for gillard !, page-102

This week, Mr Forrest repeated claims he first made two years ago that he and Mr Rudd were on the cusp of reaching a settlement over the resources super profits tax when Mr Rudd lost the leadership to Ms Gillard.

In a statement yesterday, Mr Forrest went further, saying that despite the advanced nature of the negotiations, Ms Gillard and Mr Swan cut a separate deal behind the scenes with one minerals company, understood to be BHP Billiton.
He implied that in return for the dumping of Mr Rudd, the minerals industry would accept the reworked tax and drop its advertising campaign which was severely damaging the government.

''The Robin Hood-in-reverse proposal was used to remove a democratically elected prime minister from office by the promise of stopping the advertising campaign,'' Mr Forrest alleged.

''They later announced it to the Australian people as a [post-coup] breakthrough.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-cut-a-deal-on-rudd-says-forrest-20120419-1xa54.html#ixzz20XzoC6dm

THIS IS THE TELLING COMMENT

''In my opinion, the furtherance of their own careers as opposed to the furtherance of the economic and standard-of-living interest of the Australian people was their primary motivation.''

Mr Forrest contends the big miners renegotiated the tax to allow them to deduct from their liability the value of their projects. This would enable them to pay next to no mining tax while the burden would fall on the smaller companies.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-cut-a-deal-on-rudd-says-forrest-20120419-1xa54.html#ixzz20Y0DVKuP


So Rudd had renegotiated the MMRT,was close to getting final agreement,all the while those closest to him,were white anting him at every turn.

I still draw similarities to the movie Rollerball(starring James Cann).
Jonathon became bigger than the game,this could not be tolerated,rules were changed to finish him off,and yet he still prevailed.
The vitriol meted out to Rudd by all those aligned with gillard,had an almost vampire vanquishing look about it,with only the non appearance of Peter Cushing detracting from the theatre of it all.

Raider