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78-484: The tax, levied on 30% of the "super profits" from the mining of iron ore and coal in Australia, was introduced on 1 July 2012. A company was to pay the tax when its annual profits reach $ 75 million, a measure designed so as not to burden small business. The original threshold was to be $ 50 million until independent MP Andrew Wilkie negotiated an amendment. Around 320 companies would have potentially been affected by

156-582: A Bachelor of Arts degree, a Graduate Diploma of Management, and a Graduate Diploma of Defence Studies. After graduation and being stationed in Brisbane, he joined the Liberal Party before allowing his membership to lapse. His military career spanned 1980–2001 and he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel . He was seconded to the ONA, an Australian intelligence agency , from 1999 until late 2000. After

234-643: A National Broadband Network , and also opposed the Howard government's WorkChoices industrial relations reforms. During Wilkie's maiden speech to federal parliament on 30 September 2010, he called for withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan . He said Australia should be more willing to say "no" more often to the United States, and that there could be no hope for peace in Afghanistan until foreign troops are withdrawn: "No-one should be fooled by

312-659: A two-party vote of more than 65 percent. Following the election, he declared that he would back the Labor minority government , in return for Julia Gillard 's administration committing $ 340 million to the Royal Hobart Hospital and a commitment to reduce problem gambling. In contrast the Coalition offered A$ 1 billion in funding for the same hospital in their offer to Wilkie, which was perceived by Wilkie as "almost reckless". Wilkie described this as being part of

390-538: A National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers". Windsor is known as the architect of the bill which became an amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) known as the water trigger . The new legislation forced the government through a process whereby actions by large coal mining developments, in particular coal seam gas , which may adversely affect groundwater in

468-590: A Semi-final NRL game, prompting the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to investigate, stating "Channel Nine broadcast political material without adequately identifying it as such during the NRL first preliminary final". One of the accused commentators stated that the remarks were a "directive from up top that it be read by at least somebody". Investigations were predicted to take months. Andrew Demetriou , chief executive officer of

546-473: A change of Speaker. The plan came under sustained attack from clubs, hotels and other businesses which financially benefit from pokies. Xenophon responded by accusing them of misrepresenting plans and creating hype around the issue. Strategy papers erroneously placed on the Clubs Queensland public website seemed to indicate that clubs were deliberately and purposefully exaggerating the impact that

624-489: A clear majority of voters across the spectrum. Wilkie and Xenophon argued that "$ 12 billion a year is lost on the pokies. 100,000 Australians are problem gamblers and an additional 200,000 are significantly at risk of developing a full-blown addiction", and that the legislation is necessary to "[help] those who sometimes lose up to $ 1200 an hour on the pokies." The Labor government withdrew their promised support for Wilkies's plan when their strength in parliament improved through

702-481: A drink-driving incident arose on the day of his preselection, and the National Party endorsed another candidate. In spite of the allegations, Windsor won as an independent candidate and held the seat for ten years. Windsor was one of the four independents who held the balance of power after Nick Greiner 's Liberal -National Coalition lost 10 seats, resulting in a hung parliament . His decision to support

780-565: A good help". Activist group GetUp! attempted to counter the anti-pre-commitment campaign by running political commercials during the NRL grand final but all three major commercial television stations refused to air more of them. On the 28th of November, Wilkie introduced a bill targeting loot boxes in video games, stating they "[groom children] for future gambling". The bill would make all games targeting at children that include any form of in-game gambling be mandatorally rated R18 +, restricting their purchase to exclusively adults. Wilkie

858-600: A lawsuit challenging the tax's validity under the Constitution of Australia . On 7 August 2013, the High Court of Australia unanimously rejected the claim, declaring that the tax did not: The Coalition had promised at the 2010 and 2013 elections to repeal the tax. After winning the 2013 election, it introduced the Mining Tax Repeal Bill. After failing once, and following Coalition negotiations with

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936-812: A more humane approach to asylum seekers. In March 2011, he called Liberal MPs Cory Bernardi and Scott Morrison "a disgrace to high office", calling on party leader Tony Abbott to sack them both. In a speech to the House of Representatives, he spoke of the "racism that eats at the Liberal Party". Wilkie campaigned heavily against poker machines (colloquially "pokies") at the 2010 federal election , and immediately began forging ties with independent anti-pokies Senator Nick Xenophon . Wilkie claimed that problem gamblers in Australia lose $ 5 billion each year on pokies. The Labor government gave two commitments regarding pokies in exchange for Wilkie's support. The first

1014-463: A press conference on 7 September 2010, Windsor revealed that he would support the incumbent Labor government during confidence motions and supply bills. Oakeshott also threw his support to the incumbent Labor government, handing Labor a second term. It had been assumed that Windsor would support the Coalition due to his past membership of the National Party but on this Windsor made an analogy of him being an ex-smoker: "I've never been in parliament as

1092-657: A return about three times greater than other farmers who sold their properties to the same company in the previous 18 months. Windsor was present at the February 2011 announcement by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard , on the proposed July 2012 introduction of a tax on carbon emissions , together with Greens senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne , the Minister for Climate Change , Greg Combet , and independent MP Rob Oakeshott. Windsor downplayed his presence at

1170-749: A stint with US defence company Raytheon , Wilkie returned to the ONA shortly after the September 11 attacks . Wilkie joined the Army in 1980, and was first stationed in Brisbane, Queensland . He served in the Royal Australian Infantry Corps and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel . He was discharged in 2001. In the aftermath of the September 11 Terror Attacks, the United States called upon Australia to assist in enforcing

1248-617: Is a former Australian politician. Windsor was an independent member for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Tamworth from 1991 to 2001 − supporting the incumbent Greiner Liberal/National Coalition minority government at the 1991 election . He subsequently entered federal politics, serving as an independent member for the Australian House of Representatives seat of New England from 2001 until retiring in 2013 − supporting

1326-673: Is no hard intelligence linking the Iraqi regime to al-Qaeda in any substantial or worrisome way." Wilkie later told the press that in the lead up to his resignation he had increasingly encountered ethical conflict between his duty as an intelligence officer and his "respect for the truth". In 2016, after appearing at the Chilcot enquiry , Wilkie said the notion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and co-operated with terrorists had been "a lie ... No wonder John Howard and Tony Blair and George W Bush do stand accused of war crimes ". He linked

1404-493: Is rich in coal deposits; mining companies, such as BHP and Whitehaven Coal , have sought to acquire land. Greens have campaigned alongside Windsor, against mining companies. During the 2010 federal election campaign, it was revealed that Windsor had sold his family farm at Werris Creek to a wholly owned subsidiary of Whitehaven Coal, and then leased the property back. The reported sale was for more than A$ 4.5 million. The Australian subsequently claimed that Windsor yielded

1482-750: The Herald Sun , in December 2002 Wilkie submitted to the government an Office of National Assessments report on the humanitarian implications of war in Iraq. In the report he cautioned against unpredictable and potentially serious humanitarian consequences of war with Iraq, such as the use of weapons of mass destruction against civilians. In response to widespread opposition to the war , Wilkie gave extensive television interviews and accepted numerous offers of public speaking engagements. He subsequently gave evidence to official British and Australian inquiries into

1560-625: The 2003 invasion of Iraq under the Howard government . Wilkie later argued the Iraq War was based on a "lie". Wilkie has been active in politics since 2003. He was a Greens candidate for the federal Division of Bennelong in the 2004 federal election and for the Senate in Tasmania at the 2007 federal election . In 2010 he stood as an independent candidate for the state seat of Denison at

1638-501: The 2005 Bali bombings and the 2014 Lindt Cafe siege to Australia's participation in the invasion of Iraq. Wilkie became a member of the Australian Greens by 2004, and stood as their candidate for the seat of Bennelong in that year's federal election , running against sitting Prime Minister John Howard . He was a supporter of the 'Not happy, John!' campaign which ran during the election campaign. Polling 16.37% of

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1716-448: The 2010 election , Windsor was at the centre of negotiations to determine the government after both major parties failed to win a majority in their own right. Windsor, together with Rob Oakeshott and Bob Katter , initially resolved to form a bloc to assist negotiations with the major parties to form government. However, several days later, Windsor claimed it should not be assumed that the three rural independents would move together. In

1794-578: The 2010 federal election campaign. The response to the MRRT was mostly divided into supporter and opposition groups consisting of Federal government and opposition parties, lobby groups and the various stakeholders. The tax received support from the Australian Council of Trade Unions , mining unions such as the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and conditional support from

1872-585: The Australian Greens . Unlike the RSPT, mining companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto did not publicly oppose the MRRT. Those opposing the tax included the mining industry, resource and mining organisations such as Fortescue Metals Group , Xstrata and Hancock Prospecting , mining lobby groups, being mainly led by the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) and the federal opposition (Liberal Party and National Party). Andrew Forrest stated that

1950-486: The House of Representatives for Wilkie's preferred option for it to be passed, and that they had been advised it was technically infeasible to implement mandatory commitment within the time frame he had specified. In making his announcement, Wilkie stated that he would only support motions of no confidence against the government "in the event of serious misconduct" and would "consider budget measures on their merits". Wilkie

2028-512: The Lindt Cafe siege . I mean, this is irrational." On 11 March 2003, Wilkie resigned from the ONA, stating that while it was likely that Iraq did possess weapons of mass destruction, its program in this area was contained, that international sanctions were having an effect, and therefore an invasion was premature and also reckless in potentially provoking Saddam Hussein to use those weapons and possibly even begin supporting terrorism. He told

2106-474: The National Party of Australia Barnaby Joyce at the 2016 election , who had won the seat upon Windsor's retirement at the previous election. Seat-level polling in the seat of New England found Joyce and Windsor neck and neck. On election day, however, Windsor was convincingly defeated, taking 41 percent of the two-party vote. Joyce was able to win a majority on the primary vote, enough to retain

2184-573: The Palmer United Party , the bill passed both houses of Parliament on 2 September 2014, and received Royal assent on 5 September 2014. Its implementation took place over several dates: Andrew Wilkie Andrew Damien Wilkie (born 8 November 1961) is an Australian politician and independent federal member for Clark . Before entering politics Wilkie was an infantry officer in the Australian Army . Wilkie served with

2262-511: The Tasmanian state election , narrowly missing out on the final vacancy. Later in the year, again as an independent candidate, he ran for the federal seat of Denison at the 2010 federal election and won, finishing third on the primary vote but winning the seat after the distribution of preferences. Wilkie finished first on the primary vote at both the 2013 federal election and 2016 federal election , increasing his margin each time. In 2019,

2340-557: The 1980s, and apologised for this "inappropriate behaviour", but could not recall the specific incident alleged. With regard to the allegation and its publication, he accused pro- Pokies advocates of running a smear campaign against him. On 21 January 2012, Wilkie announced that he was withdrawing his support for the Labor government after it broke the agreement he had signed with Julia Gillard to implement mandatory pre-commitment for all poker machines by 2014. He stated that he would support

2418-473: The 1991 Gulf War peace treaty which had been repeatedly breached by Saddam Hussein's Iraq . Iraq failed to comply with demands to allow unfettered arms inspections, and the Howard government elected to send forces to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq . While the Government was considering the case for war, Wilkie was asked to report on humanitarian considerations. According to a leaked report published in

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2496-461: The ABC: "I think that invading Iraq at this time would be wrong. For a start, Iraq does not pose a security threat to any other country at this point in time. Its military is very weak, it's a fraction of the size of the military at the time of the invasion of Kuwait. Its weapons of mass destruction program is very disjointed and contained by the regime that's been in place since the last Gulf War. And there

2574-452: The AFL, rejected suggestions that the AFL was joining Clubs Australia in their media campaign despite opposition to the plan by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire. Other high-profile club bosses including Jeff Kennett (Hawthorn) and David Smorgon (Bulldogs), and also stated "The fellow from Clubs Australia, I don't even know his name, but please, stop talking on our behalf, just shut up, that'd be

2652-543: The AFP had referred the matter to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions for determination. Anderson, Macdonald, and McGuire denied the claims. The AFP investigated Windsor's claims and advised that the matter would not be prosecuted. Windsor was comfortably re-elected in 2007 , increasing his majority to 24 per cent. As one of the six crossbenchers elected to the House of Representatives at

2730-534: The Australian Army from 1980 to 2004. An officer with the Royal Australian Infantry Corps who had earlier commanded a company of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment , at the time of his entry to public life Wilkie was posted to Australia's Office of National Assessments as an intelligence analyst . In 2003, in the lead-up to the Iraq War , he resigned from his position at ONA because he feared

2808-714: The Australian Government's periodic efforts to tinker around the edges with Australia's commitment to Afghanistan" and that "The reality is that the best plan the Australian Government can come up with so far is simply to continue to support whatever the US Government comes up with and that alone is no plan—it's just reinforcing failure." Wilkie's comments came amid opposition calls for more support for Australia's troops in Afghanistan. During his speech Wilkie also canvassed his push for legislation to protect whistleblowers , measures to tackle problem gambling and

2886-611: The Bill on the condition that a committee be set up to independently assess the environmental risks posed by coal seam gas extraction. The tax was passed by the Senate on 19 March 2012 by 38 votes to 32, with support of the Greens. The tax was calculated separately for each mining project interest, according to the formula M R R T = A ( B − C ) − D − E {\displaystyle MRRT=A(B-C)-D-E} where The tax

2964-612: The Blair Government's prosecution of the war, Wilkie said that Howard, Bush and Blair should be brought before an international court, and called for Australia to hold another inquiry into the war. Howard rejected Wilkie's proposition and called him "irrational", telling the media: "Andrew Wilkie said the Iraq invasion was responsible for the Bali attack of 2005. What about the Bali attack of 2002? And he blamed it [the Iraq War] on

3042-538: The Commonwealth Electoral Act. Windsor claimed that he had been approached, in May 2004, by a figure associated with the National Party with the offer of a diplomatic position in exchange for retiring from politics. Windsor made the allegations during the course of the 2004 federal election campaign, some five months after the incident allegedly occurred. The Australian Electoral Commission referred

3120-742: The Division of Denison was replaced by the Division of Clark , to which Wilkie was transferred. He retained the seat at the 2022 Australian federal election by a margin of 20.82%. Wilkie attended St Gregory's College, Campbelltown and later trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and graduated in 1984. He joined the Young Liberals while a cadet. He also studied at the University of New South Wales , and holds

3198-487: The Liberal candidate's preferences flowed to Wilkie, allowing him to win the seat with just over 51 per cent of the two-candidate-preferred vote. Reportedly, Wilkie benefited from what was perceived to have been a lacklustre campaign by Labor 's candidate, Jonathan Jackson, the son of former longtime state Labor minister Judy Jackson ; Labor lost almost a quarter of its primary vote from 2007, and Labor theoretically tallied

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3276-476: The MRRT would have funded, for example; the proposed company tax cut was halved due to the reduction in revenue to be collected from the tax, along with reductions in other areas. In May 2012 budget, the government said was the tax would bring in $ 3 billion for the financial year. In October 2012, the figure was reduced to $ 2 billion, while on 14 May 2013, it was announced that the receipts were expected to be less than $ 200 million. On 12 February 2013, Rudd, one of

3354-617: The UK to meet Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange . Both MPs called for Assange to be released. In the 2010 Tasmanian state election, Wilkie made the removal of poker machines his primary campaign issue. He strongly opposed the Gunns pulp mill in the Tamar Valley. Wilkie is a supporter of voluntary euthanasia , provided that there are safeguards in place. He is also in favour of same-sex marriage and access to abortion. He supported

3432-489: The announcement, stating, "Please don't construe from my presence here that I will be supporting anything." He was later reported as stating that he would not accept increased transport fuel costs for country people. He subsequently announced that he was supporting Gillard's carbon policy, as a matter of principle, and stated: "This is about the history of people, most of whom haven't even been born yet. And if I'm sacked from politics because of that, well, I'll remove myself with

3510-474: The area and thereby significantly affecting water resources , had to be assessed for environmental impact . On 26 June 2013 Windsor announced that he would not be contesting the 2013 election ; partly due to an undisclosed medical condition. On 10 March 2016, Windsor announced his intention to contest his former seat of New England as an independent candidate at the 2016 election . Windsor faced incumbent Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of

3588-518: The authors of the tax, stated that "Wayne Swan and Julia Gillard must bear the responsibility for Labor's mining tax and deal with the consequences [of] its near non-existent revenue" as the expected revenue has not materialised. It raised $ 126 million in the first six months since its introduction. On 16 August 2013, the Treasury and Finance departments' pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook forecast an increase in forecasts for tax receipts over

3666-506: The changes. The Coalition , led by Tony Abbott , went to the 2010 and 2013 elections promising to repeal the tax. The Coalition won the 2013 election, and repealed the tax in 2014. A January 2014 poll conducted by UMR Research, however, found that a majority of Australians still think that multinational mining companies do not pay enough tax. Supporters of the tax also point to continually-large profits produced by Australian-based mining operations, 83% of which are foreign-owned. The RSPT

3744-410: The evidence that Labor would better be able to offer a more stable, competent and ethical government than the Coalition. The agreement to support the government only extended to issues of supply and no confidence motions. Wilkie was unexpectedly admitted to hospital on 12 November 2010 to have his gall bladder removed. This did not interfere with his ability to attend Parliamentary sittings and he

3822-475: The first count, and defeated St. Clair on Labor and other party preferences. Windsor's victory was considered a shock result, since the National Party and its predecessor, the Country Party, had held New England since 1922, usually without serious difficulty. In September 2004, in an interview with Tony Vermeer from The Sunday Telegraph , Windsor was the centre of controversy over an alleged breach of

3900-524: The following order: Additional compliance costs for the mining sector reportedly ran into millions of dollars. Where the miner had a group profit of less than $ 125 million, a low profit offset was available so that: Where a mining project interest or pre‑mining project interest was winding down or had ended, a rehabilitation tax offset may have arisen if upstream rehabilitation expenditure had occurred that would not otherwise have been taken into account in determining MRRT liability. A total of $ 22.5 billion

3978-532: The government and mining interests began in May 2010 and continued until the downfall of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in June 2010. The Australian Electoral Commission released figures indicating mining interests had spent $ 22 m in campaigning and advertisements in the six weeks prior to the end of the Rudd prime ministership. Mining interests re-introduced the advertisements arguing against the proposed revised changes during

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4056-408: The government and support the no-confidence motion. Rather than face certain defeat in the House, Greiner resigned and was succeeded by John Fahey . Windsor resigned from the state parliament in September 2001 in order to contest the federal seat of New England. In the federal election held later that year, he defeated one-term National incumbent Stuart St. Clair . Windsor took a large lead on

4134-456: The government's alternative plan to trial pre-commitment in the ACT and require that pre-commitment technology be installed in all poker machines built from 2013, but that this fell short of what he had been promised in return for supporting the government. Gillard and Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin argued that there was not enough support in

4212-405: The government's case for involvement in the Iraq war. In 2004, Wilkie published Axis of Deceit , an account of the reasons for his decision and its results. He describes his views on the nature of intelligence agencies and the analyst's work, the history of the Iraq war, the untruths of politicians and the attempts to suppress the truth. Following Britain's 2016 Chilcot Report which criticised

4290-454: The humanitarian consequences of invasion, such as Saddam Hussein using his weapons of mass destruction or assisting terrorists. Following his resignation he said: Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction program is very disjointed and contained by the regime that's been in place since the last Gulf War. And there is no hard intelligence linking the Iraqi regime to al-Qaeda in any substantial or worrisome way." He opposed Australia's contribution to

4368-461: The incumbent Gillard Labor minority government at the 2010 election . At the 2016 election , Windsor unsuccessfully attempted to regain the seat of New England against Nationals incumbent Barnaby Joyce . Tony Windsor was born in Quirindi , New South Wales. He was one of three sons raised by their mother after their father was killed in a farm accident when Windsor was eight years old. He

4446-531: The incumbent Coalition government ensured a second term in government for Greiner. After an adverse ruling by the Independent Commission Against Corruption against Greiner for offering former minister Terry Metherell a patronage job, the Labor opposition tabled a motion of no confidence in the government. Windsor and the other three independents told Greiner that unless he resigned, they would withdraw their support from

4524-458: The largest resource companies while funding for the Federal government's advertisements came from consolidated revenue. Julia Gillard ceased the government's advertising after becoming prime minister and the mining lobby ended its ads shortly thereafter. On 23 November 2011 the tax passed through the lower house with the support of the Greens and Wilkie. Independent MP Tony Windsor supported

4602-411: The latter's appointment as leader, the government reached an agreement with several of the largest mining firms, including BHP Billiton, Xstrata and Rio Tinto, on changes that were announced on 2 July 2010. Negotiations with smaller companies did not take place at this time. The changes led to a reduction in the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the tax and offsetting reductions in the tax breaks

4680-536: The matter to the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Windsor was comfortably re-elected in the October 2004 election, increasing his majority to 21 percent. A month later, speaking under parliamentary privilege , he said that National Party leader John Anderson and Senator Sandy Macdonald had made the offer through an intermediary, Tamworth businessman Greg McGuire. Windsor also claimed that

4758-423: The new framework. The RSPT was to be levied at 40% and applied to all extractive industry including gold, nickel and uranium mining as well as sand and quarrying activities. The tax was replaced by the MRRT following the appointment of Julia Gillard as Prime Minister in late June 2010. Gillard made implementation of the tax her first priority. The controversy regarding the RSPT was such that an "ad war" between

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4836-439: The next four years to almost $ 6 billion, $ 16.5 billion below its original projection. The government is paying back several of pre-payments already made for this tax. The tax also proved to be complex and expensive to operate. It cost more than $ 50 million to set up, with estimated running costs of $ 20 million a year. Advertising came to nearly $ 40 million. In 2012, Fortescue Metals Group and several of its subsidiaries launched

4914-514: The pre-commitment reforms will have on their services. The same papers outlined some strategies that the clubs could use to exploit loopholes in the proposed reform. The National Rugby League (NRL) aligned themselves with the campaign in opposing the pre-commitment plans, as did some prominent Australian Football League (AFL) people. Commentators from the Nine Network gave planned political arguments without disclosure during commentary of

4992-463: The primary vote, Wilkie achieved the fifth-highest vote percentage for a Greens candidate across the nation at the time. This result was a considerable increase from the Greens' previous election result in Bennelong of 4.03%. Although Wilkie's vote was nowhere near enough to win the seat, there was an overall swing of 3.18% against Howard, who achieved a primary vote of only 49.89%, which resulted in

5070-402: The primary vote. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation declared Wilkie the winner on election night, predicting that Wilkie would be vaulted into second place on Green preferences and ultimately take the seat on Liberal preferences. On the third count, he picked up enough Green preferences to put him in second place, ahead of the Liberal candidate. On the fourth count, more than 79 percent of

5148-583: The scheme is fully costed. The same article claimed that Windsor supports the Coalition's position on water, and the Greens position on a universal dental scheme. He has fought a long-standing battle protecting the interests of local landholders and farmers living on one of NSW's richest agricultural regions, the Liverpool Plains , due to the impact of mining on underlying groundwater. The region

5226-466: The seat being decided on preferences. Wilkie did not run again for Bennelong in the 2007 federal election , instead running as the Greens' second Tasmanian candidate for the Australian Senate , behind the party's federal leader, Bob Brown . He was not elected. He resigned from the party in 2008, criticising it for a lack of professionalism. Wilkie stood as an independent candidate in

5304-621: The seat without the need for preferences. Before his defeat at this election Windsor said, "You haven't seen the last of me" and was asked if he would stand again if he did not win he answered, "I wouldn't rule anything out." In an interview published in The Sydney Morning Herald following the 2010 federal election, it was reported that Windsor supports a rent resources tax , deep cuts to carbon emissions , and improved services to rural and regional areas such as Labor's proposed National Broadband Network but wants to ensure

5382-439: The state Division of Denison , based around central Hobart, in the 2010 Tasmanian state election . He won 8.44 per cent of first preference votes, and was beaten by 315 votes by Liberal candidate Elise Archer after distribution of preferences. Wilkie stood as an independent for the federal Division of Denison, which has the same boundaries as the state division, in the 2010 federal election and won more than 20 per cent of

5460-416: The tax would reduce investment in Australia. Mining magnate Gina Rinehart , listed by Forbes Australia in 2011 as Australia's wealthiest person, was a fierce opponent of the tax, arguing that it would drive away billions of dollars of investment. Advertisements supporting or attacking the proposed tax ran on commercial television and in major newspapers. Funding for the mining lobby's advertisements came from

5538-506: Was educated at Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School , Tamworth and the University of New England , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics . He was a farmer at Werris Creek before entering politics. In the 1991 election , Windsor was first elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Member for Tamworth . Windsor had originally sought National Party preselection for this seat, but allegations in regards to

5616-465: Was expected to have been raised over the first four years of the tax, which would have been spent on pensions, tax cuts for small businesses and infrastructure projects, particularly in Queensland and Western Australia. Opposition to the tax was cited by many commentators as one reason for the replacement in June 2010 of the then prime minister, Kevin Rudd by his then deputy, Gillard. Soon after

5694-607: Was initially announced as part of the initial response to the Australia's Future Tax System review, known as the Henry Tax Review , by the Treasurer , Wayne Swan and Prime Minister , Kevin Rudd . The tax was similar in concept, although different in operation, to the existing Petroleum Resource Rent Tax levied on off-shore petroleum extraction activities. The Petroleum Resource Rent Tax is to be extended to all Australian onshore and offshore oil and gas projects as part of

5772-464: Was initially set at 22.5%, based on the formula above. MRRT rate = 30 % ( 1 − Extraction factor ) {\displaystyle {\text{MRRT rate}}=30\%(1-{\text{Extraction factor}})} where the extraction factor is set at 25%. Where a mining project interest's mining profit was negative, it was deemed to be nil for MRRT purposes. Allowances were available for deduction against mining profits in

5850-499: Was mandatory " pre-commitment " technology, which required a better to commit how much they were willing to bet before starting. The second commitment was to introduce $ 1 maximum bet per spin machines that would not require pre-commitment. Wilkie argued these $ 1 maximum machines would be safer. The Abbott Coalition opposed the plans, with Abbott saying "it is not Liberal Party policy" and it will be "expensive and ineffective". According to polling, Wilkie's proposals were supported by

5928-513: Was married to a fellow army officer Simone Wilkie (née Burt) from 1991 to 2003. He married Kate (now Charlie ) Burton in 2004, with whom he has two daughters. However, they separated in 2012 and divorced the following year, with Wilkie citing stress from the 2010–2013 hung parliament as the main cause of the breakdown. Wilkie became engaged to Clare Ballingall in late 2018, and the pair married in June 2020. Tony Windsor Antony Harold Curties Windsor , AM (born 2 September 1950)

6006-511: Was present at the debate on same-sex marriage on 15 November, where he seconded the motion raised by Greens member Adam Bandt . In April 2011, during push for gambling reform initiated by Wilkie, News Limited media reported allegations by a former Duntroon army cadet that in 1983 Wilkie had forced junior cadets to salute to Adolf Hitler on the 50th anniversary of the latter's rise to power. In response, Wilkie said he had been "involved in bastardisation of teenage army cadets" at Duntroon during

6084-527: Was re-elected in the 2013 federal election , gaining a swing of 15 points to increase his majority to 65 percent. In October 2014, Wilkie wrote to the International Criminal Court , seeking to prosecute Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the 19 members of his cabinet for crimes against humanity, with particular concerns relating to the treatment of asylum seekers. In February 2020, Wilkie and fellow MP George Christensen travelled to

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