our foreign debt isn't going to improve in the long term unless we build sovereign wealth from some of the profits from digging up dirt and shipping it overseas
it's not exactly value adding, is it? it's a finite resource and we need to be a lot smarter about how we are going to provision for the future when it's gone
that means investment in education, science, creating new and valuable intellectual property
the BHPs and RIOs of this world are plundering our nation's wealth, a resource tax is justifiable
these are the companies that used Crown land for their railways and refused to let any third parties access them, effectively creating a duopoly in the Pilbara
