It was a turning point. And there are significant implications for next year’s federal election, especially in Western Australia. On 9 September, at its annual parliamentary dinner, the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) rediscovered its backbone (albeit with one slightly slipped disc). And a principled Peter Dutton tacked the Coalition’s flag to the MCA’s belated, but nevertheless welcome, declaration of war on an increasingly anti-mining Albanese Labor government – its latest manifestation being an economically destructive pro-union industrial relations assault on mining, in particular, and business in general.
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