Community supports resource tax
Date: 10 May 2010
There's a new way to show your support for the AWU campaign to make sure infrastructure investment goes back into remote and regional Australia.
![facebook-shot [facebook shot.jpg]](http://www.awu.net.au/pics/facebook_shot.jpg "facebook-shot [facebook shot.jpg]") Gathering community support through Facebook
If you are on Facebook show that you’re another worker who backs the idea of a Super Profits Tax.
The support for this tax on the Facebook group “ Workers who support the Resources Super Profits Tax” has been phenomenal.
In less than three hours a couple of hundred people have signed up.
Plow profits back into remote and regional Australia
Let your Facebook friends know that you too believe some of the huge profits mine companies are making should be plowed back into remote and regional Australia to build ports, rail, and road transport as well as quality health and school facilities for our mining families.
They’re saying they believe the Federal Government should use a special mine tax to build communities in regional Australia – to help Australians who want to live and work far away from our capital cities.
On the weekend the AWU National Secretary, Paul Howes, wrote an Opinion Piece in the Sunday Telegraph headlined Why super tax is good for us. He explains why he believes the Rudd Government has adopted a policy which will be good not just for AWU miners - but for all Australia,
Former Minerals Council boss exposes the hysteria - saying the jobs threats are just not true
The hysteria of the mine companies campaign against the super profits tax was exposed last Friday when the former boss of the Minerals Council came out and said the big mine companies were being hysterical.
David Buckingham, led the Minerals Council in the mid-1990s, and told the ABC that the apopletic responses don’t help the mine industry’s cause in any realistic way.
"The threats to withdraw investment, to withdraw jobs, to withdraw exploration, quite frankly, these threats were never true and they are not true now."
 Building communites where mine families can have job security and have decent lives
Let's all show we want our remote, regional and rural areas to have decent infrastructure so mining communities can grow and prosper - and mine families can have decent lives and provide for the education and health of their children where they live.
Too many families at the moment have to make heart-wrenching decisions to live apart, or send the kids away, if they are to provide quality health care and education for the next generation.
Campaign flyer distributed in workplaces and posted up in pubs and community centres
Already hundreds of AWU supporters have also downloaded our flyer and given copies to work mates as well as posted the flyer up in workplaces, pubs and community centres.
The Australian Workers' Union is distributing a special flyer to fight mine bosses lies, spread to scare workers' and their families.
Making sure the scare campaign doesn't work
Labor is going to make sure that all Australians share in the resources boom not just New York and London suits.
The Australian Workers’ Union is distributing information to mine workers to make sure the scare campaign doesn’t work.
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