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Calls to reject super tax! T
he local business community is joining a call to send a strong and loud message to the Government about the Super Profit Tax on mining.
Chad Oldfield - “I am backing her (Lynn Breuer) in this and I think it is a great thing she is doing.”
Business people and residents are being encouraged to join the fight and over the coming weeks and The Monitor will give details on who and how you can contact South Australian Senators, The Prime Minister’s Department and Federal Member for Grey, Rowan Ramsey. Local businessman Mr Alan Male believes the Rudd Government’s financial policies are totally “un-thought through”. “I personally do not believe that the mining tax should be imposed - the mining companies spend a lot of money to be able to do what they do. “From a personal perspective I don’t like the idea of the super tax on profits, from a business perspective it’s unfair.” Mr. Male believes the Australian tax system does need to be overhauled and not at the expense of mining companies. We as a community must support the reason why we live in Roxby,” he said. “We’ve got the think beyond Roxby Downs itself. We have all of the feeder towns that supply or town as well.” Local Member of Parliament, Lyn Breuer is joining the fight and is planning to lead a delegation to Canberra to meet with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan. Although a member of the same Labor Party, Ms Breuer is protecting the interest of Whyalla people whose city will be devastated if this tax thereatens the closure of the town’s major employer OneSteel.
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As the Member for Giles, Ms. Breuer represents much wider interests than her home town of Whyalla, and must carry the messages of concern from the people of Roxby Downs and the Far North areas reliant on the mining of minerals for their existence. Should members of the Roxby community be included in her delegation to Canberra? According to some locals the answer is yes. Chad Oldfield, the former Liberal candidate for Giles in the last State election, told
Local Member for Giles is gleading a delegation to Canberra to oppose the Mining Super Tax.
the Monitor he believes Ms Breuer is doing the right thing leading a delegation opposing this tax and supports her wholeheartedly. “Anything she is doing for us is good and I don’t want to be negative in any way about what she is doing. “I would love them to include some people from this area (in the delegation) because we are in her electorate. But she will be fighting and whatever she can get them (the Federal Government) to do to change their minds on this terrible tax would be great,” said Mr. Oldfield. “I am backing her in this and I think it is a great thing she is doing. I am hoping they get a gathering of all mining people in the area (electorate) to stand against this crazy man we’ve got in at the moment.” Mr Oldfield said he has no confidence in what the Federal Government is doing and claims Mr Rudd stands for little as he back-flips from one disaster to another. Another local businessman Leigh Malcolm said he hates the idea of the super tax on mining profits and supports the idea of Lynn Breuer taking a delegation to lobby Parliament about the issues that could affect OneSteel. “I encourage BHP to stand their ground. I think it’s funny that they call it super tax, it’s only 6%. I’d like to see what the banks are making,” said Mr Malcolm “With the expansion, the population will double. They’ll get payroll taxes, company taxes and GST. They’ll get an increase in tax anyway!” He said, “We need to be appealing in Adelaide. Towns that aren’t in mining need to be seen as supporting our cause, as an appeal from Roxby would be biased.”
Space probe lands safely near Woomera
he Japanese space probe landed to Earth Sunday midnight and the capsule parachuted to the Woomera Prohibited Area as planned.
Leigh Malcolm - “I encourage BHP to stand their ground.”
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The probe believed to be carrying dust samples from an asteroid landed just before midnight (CST) on Sunday. The capsule released by the probe parachuted to Earth within the Woomera Prohibited Area and Scientists retrieved the capsule in the daylight on Monday. It will now be sealed in an airtight vessel and taken to Japan for study. The basketball-sized cargo capsule was released from the spacecraft just before 9
p.m. Australian time and land by parachute at about midnight Sunday night. In preparation for the touch down, the Stuart Highway was blocked temporarily for several hours from just south of Coober Pedy to the north of Glendambo. The probe itself didn’t survive re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere, but during its final decent it launched a small sample canister containing the collected space material that floated to earth on a parachute. The Hayabusa project launched in 2003, landed on the asteroid in 2005 and is believed to have collected samples of material from the surface that may shed light on the solar system’s origin and evolution. Scientists hope to study how and when
the asteroid was formed, its physical properties, what other bodies it may have been in contact with, and how solar wind and radiation have affected it. Hayabusa was originally due to return to Earth in 2007, but a series of technical glitches -- including a deterioration of its ion engines, broken control wheels, and the malfunctioning of batteries -- forced it to miss its window to manoeuvre into the Earth’s orbit until this year. Preliminary analysis of the samples will be carried out by the team of Japanese, American and Australian scientists in Japan. After one year, scientists around the world can apply for access to the asteroid material for research.