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Miners got A$4.5 billion from taxpayers last year: Australian Institute

Michael Allan McCrae | June 26, 2013 | 3:57 am Australia 

[caption id="attachment_738075" align="alignnone" width="600"] Mines and Money awards dinner in London.[/caption] Counting up all the services and tax breaks Australian miners receive, the left-leaning Australian Institute calculates that the industry is being "propped up" on A$4.5 billion from the federal...

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