Big miners fear tax increase from Chalmers’ roundtable

John Kehoe, Jesinta Burton and Mark Wembridge

Jul 18, 2025 – 6.12pm

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Resources companies fear Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable could propose higher taxes on mining and energy to pay for cutting other taxes, after the nation’s biggest export industry was omitted from the 24-member invite list.

Mining groups instead attended a mini-roundtable on Thursday with Resources Minister Madeleine King and her department head Meghan Quinn, part of consultations ministers are doing with stakeholders in the lead up to Chalmers’ major meeting with business, unions and policymakers next month.

John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury.

Jesinta Burton is The Australian Financial Review’s Western Australia reporter based in Perth.

Mark Wembridge covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Perth. He formerly worked for the Financial Times in London and Hong Kong.