Stop believing in fairy tales: Australia’s coal industry doesn’t employ many people or pay its fair share of tax – The Guardian

Just as people in the Middle Ages mistakenly believed the sun revolved around the Earth, many modern-day Australians mistakenly believe our economy revolves around the coal industry. Of course, such misunderstandings arent an indictment of those who have been misled, but those who did the misleading.
Galileo was imprisoned for life for the heresy of ignoring dogma and relying on empirical evidence. And while those who rely on Australian Bureau of Statistics data to describe the Australian fossil…

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