WA State Election 2017 - Elephant in the Room

Yes biggest backlash against the conservatives since...well long as I can remember not sure when it was this big. At this stage the back lash wasn't nearly as big for the Nationals & SFFP as it was for the Liberals.

As big as that was, the biggest elephant in the room was what happened in the seat of Pilbara.

We saw a determined Chamber of Commerce & Industry WA declare the # 1 issue was Payroll Tax. When I hit them up about that the best deal on the table was with the Nationals. I asked were they going to back the Nats policy position. Now it being their number one issue and the Nats had by far the best deal it'd be a no brainer support position.

HOWEVER...

They duly noted that no, not if the "mining tax" was still being pushed by the Nats.
So Number one issue was actually preventing any raising of the Mining Rental Fee...not the payroll tax at all. Sorry WA Businesses.

They were gun slinging for Rio Tinto & BHP - The Coles/Woolies Duopoly equivalent in mining.
Chamber of Mining & Energy spent big bucks slamming the idea that a rental fee should stay stuck in the 1950s where the said companies had it waived for 15 years anyway. Said to have spent $2 Million, Brendon Grylls thought it was closer to $5 Million. He's far from alone on that estimate.

Now everything came out, everything that was either skewed or totally false...like that they were "paying $19/ton royalties not 25 cents". So, WHO said Rio/BHP were only paying 25c in royalties...WHO, WHO EXACTLY???
Well no one of course.
How did that fool so many?
It was a rent fee, nothing to do with royalties, taxs, levies...

But even with all that stench in the air, there's still the elephant in the room, the small stuffy room...

The very scary fact is, a foreign wealthy mining plutocracy was able to influence the outcome of WA State Election. They were able to help oust a socially responsible MP who threatened to properly alter the miners financial costs and returns. The idea was to no longer leave WA citizens sponsoring a subsidy that heads overseas.

Unfettered, a pair of wealthy foreign corporations were able to influence the outcome of an election and who does & doesn't sit in OUR STATE PARLIAMENT.

How is this even possible let alone tolerated? The Liberal/Labor Duopoly, not a word of protest, not a whimper, both found it suited their own respective cause or they're just compliant servants.

With iron ore very profitable at US$38/ton but its now at $90/ton...and Grylls and the Nationals were looking to changing the rental fee to $5/ton. A threat to jobs how?

It also meant that instead of the foreign miners taking a miniscule hit to their books & bringing the fee up to fair and equitable 2017 rates we're stuck in a position where we've lost the possibility of filling the massive financial debt & deficit.

The only party on the hustings with a plan to fix the finances gets clobbered by a foreign corporation.
You all fine with that then? I know I'm not.

Hopefully at some point the massive union pedigree in the WA Labor Government will realise what was missed, how they'll be viewed as corporation complicit & compliant if they don't grab the rental fee and make it raise to today's levels.

GST? Well yes during the Fed election only the aspiring Fed Nats pushed that. Liberals said they'd look at it and in 2 key WA seats the Labor party preference the Liberals. Time to get the Labor party where is should be...before the financial sinkhole gets too deep. Well it is too deep, but before it gets to 3rd World Nation levels. Only 3rd World Nations are expected to have their political systems compromised by wealthy foreign corporations.

Sovereign Over Reach.

Ironically the Labor Party is more Liberal Party than the Nationals are, the Nationals are more genuine for WA citizens, more egalitarian than the Labor Party.

The irony would be more humourous if this were a state overseas.