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Gold tax a face slap says Sorahan

THE executive director of the Minerals Council of Australia’s Victorian branch has slammed the state government for going through with a plan to tax the state’s gold miners and using a regulation that was pushed through after the final parliamentary sitting week.

Victoria was the location of Australia's infamous Eureka Stockade as seen in this image, Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross. The watercolour by Charles A Doudiet dated December 1, 1854 sits in the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Victoria was the location of Australia's infamous Eureka Stockade as seen in this image, Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross. The watercolour by Charles A Doudiet dated December 1, 1854 sits in the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

The government attacked the state's gold miners earlier in the year for having a free ride with gold the only mineral exempt from royalties, claiming the flow-on benefits from gold production were not...

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