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Mitch Hooke

August 2020

Fortescue Metals chairman Andrew Forrest.

How Mitch Hooke axed the mining tax and climate action

The ex-Mineral Council's boss pretends to be a lifelong carbon price evangelist. But his real legacy is the destruction of the Rudd government's emission trading scheme and profits-based mineral tax.

  • Kevin Rudd

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/person/mitch-hooke-4i6