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| Subject: LOL: OZschwitz Swan can't do maths: 'Twiggy' Forrest takes swipe at Treasurer Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:57 am | |
| Another Australian mining billionaire has returned fire at Treasurer Wayne Swan over comments that the nation's biggest miners are ''greedy and irresponsible''.
In his attack at a West Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry dinner last night, Fortescue Metals Group chairman Andrew ''Twiggy'' Forrest accused Mr Swan of waging class war over the mining tax.
Mr Forrest questioned the Treasurer's ability to add and subtract and he called him a ranter who derided his opponents as un-Australian.
The mining tycoon would not confirm Fortescue's plans to mount a High Court challenge to the mining tax legislation but he reiterated his firm personal opposition to it, saying mining giants BHP, Rio Tinto and Xstrata would end up paying a fraction of the expected revenue from the tax.
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/political-news/swan-cant-do-maths-twiggy-forrest-takes-swipe-at-treasurer-20120323-1vnvh.html |
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