On May 2nd Australia, the industry's largest source of many minerals, proposed a new, 40% tax on what it defines as "super profits".

在五月二日的澳大利亚，这个采矿业里许多矿产品最大的原产地，提议向那些被他们界定为“超额利润”的行业征收新的比列为40%的税款。

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Australia last month signalled that it would be the world's highest taxed country for mining groups when it announced plans for a new 40 per cent resource super-profits tax.

上月，澳大利亚宣布计划征收税率为40%的新税——资源暴利税，这意味着对矿业集团而言，澳大利亚将成为全球税率最高的国家。

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Early on, it did not help that her first policy pronouncements were to signal a retreat from Kevin Rudd's mining super profits tax, which made her look weak, and to ditch her predecessor's "Big Australia" policy, which went down well with the tabloids but seemed indicative of a lack of national ambition.

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But after picking a fight with the resources sector over his plans for a super tax on their super profits, the polls slumped again - especially in the mining states of Western Australia and Queensland.

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