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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The EMS was the spiritual successor to the Rudd government's mining tax. It was the same thing, as far as the electorate was concerned. As I said in my other reply, it doesn't matter whether they were technically different or even a tax at all. It matters how the public perceived that saga - Gillard said "no tax" then appeared to introduce a tax. That's inauthentic as far as voters are concerned.