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Australian mining houses could resurrect anti-tax adverts

Several of Australia's small and medium-sized mining companies have threatened to resurrect advertising campaigns attacking the government's proposed mining tax. The big three mining houses - BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Xstrata - dropped their ad campaigns against the tax after managing to negotiate it down from 40% to 30%, but smaller players are unhappy with this deal, and say they could relaunch anti-tax advertising as early as this weekend. Read more: Reuters

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