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Australia strikes compromise tax deal with miners

2010/07/02 09:26:42 @Reuters: World News

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia ended a damaging dispute with global miners on Friday by dumping its planned "super profits" tax for a lower resources rent tax backed by big miners, clearing a major hurdle to calling an early election.
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