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Rudd calls for super profits tax on big iron ore miners Save Share Iron ore miners are ripping off taxpayers amid buoyant commodity prices and should face the type of levy they successfully scuttled a decade ago, according to former prime minister Kevin Rudd. Renewed calls for a super-profit tax of the type that triggered Mr Rudd’s political downfall in 2010 came as prices for iron ore surged again to within striking distance of a record. A breach of the $US193 a tonne record set on February 16, 2011, was “absolutely possible” in the near future, according to NAB’s head of...

Minerals sector ‘taking accountability to a new level’ German ore-sorting tech­nology from Steinert adapted in a world first for iron ore on the large stockpile at the Frances Creek mine, which is 250km south of Darwin. PICTURE GARY SHIPWAY News by GARY SHIPWAY, EXCLUSIVE Premium Content Subscriber only AUSTRALIA'S minerals industry has a new blueprint with benchmarks for companies to meet to satisfy evolving community expectations of the sector on environment, social and governance performance. Minerals Council of Australia chief execut...

Share this article Share this article Statement from Tania Constable, CEO, Minerals Council of Australia & Pierre Gratton, President and CEO, Mining Association of Canada OTTAWA, ON, March 3, 2021 /CNW/ - Australia's minerals industry will introduce the Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) system to improve site-level performance through regular and transparent reporting on safety, environmental and social performance, including partnerships with First Nations landholders and communities. Adopting TSM – developed by the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) and implemented worldwide among mining...

Australia’s mining companies will sign up to new social and environmental monitoring guidelines amid deepening concerns about their treatment of First Nations communities.

Unions fear big project deals could lock workers out of pay rises for years We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Unions were willing to agree to longer pay agreements for major construction projects during secretive industrial relations talks last year as long as Australian jobs, apprentices and workplace diversity were made a legal priority. But employers rejected the unions’ plan for five-year agreements, seen by this masthead, on the basis that it would not do enough to stabilise labour costs and encourage in...