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Alan Jones: should there be a tax on exported raw materials?

26 May 2023

5:30 AM

26 May 2023

5:30 AM

I have warned, endlessly, about the consequences of the utterly mistaken energy policy being pursued by the Albanese government, articulated by the arrogant and ill-informed Chris Bowen.

One of the consequences of escalating energy prices is that business, especially manufacturing, is moving offshore.

It is too dear to do business.

This has cost jobs and has had an unacceptable impact on the national economy.

Well, recently, the Australian Workers’ Union National Secretary, the 39-year-old, Dan Walton, spoke in Sydney about the Labor Party’s free trade approach to critical mineral exports to China; he rightly argued about the national security risks.

Put in layman’s language, we...

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