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Readers’ letters on the Future Made in Australia Act; X’s refusal to take down video of last week’s violence in Sydney; double taxation of super funds; and a more sophisticated Australian economy.
All mining isn’t coal mining; fossil fuel ban; uninterrupted power supply; population as a growth strategy; wrong anti-inflation levers; red tape; digital health records; Commonwealth Bank.
Tax payments as a share of the economy have hit a 16-year high and could surpass the former Coalition government’s tax cap, after record mining and energy profits and a boom in jobs delivered a multibillion-dollar windfall to the federal budget.
What the commodity price boom means, why Anthony Albanese’s epic memory fail isn’t fatal, what has investors fearing a debt crisis in emerging markets, and a review of Apple’s new M1 iPad Air. Here’s 10 of the best opinion reads from this week.