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In its own inimical way, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) announced midway into the federal election campaign that Tony Abbott’s ‘slash and burn approach to the economy would jeopardise the recovery and jobs’ (ACTU 2010a). Resorting to inflamed rhetoric, it accused Abbott of an ‘obsession with cutting’, of hatching ‘dangerous plans...to bring back the worst aspects of WorkChoices’, and being intent on slashing a ‘further $1 billion from public spending [that] would send the economy in a dangerous direction and threaten thousands of jobs’. Not to be outdone, the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC), which was locked in a dispute with the Labor Government over the mining-tax fiasco, declared that the new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, had talked of ‘throwing open the Government’s door to the mining industry’ but had then rebuffed the majority of industry players. AMEC declared that it had ‘still [had] no response and no answers’ to its questions and approaches to the Prime Minister to discuss the issues, and that accordingly it would ‘relaunch its anti-mining tax media campaign’ (AMEC 2010a, 2010b). AMEC was at the time fighting to be taken seriously in the taxation policy debate in the aftermath of the concessions given to the three multinational mining companies in the socalled ‘secret deal’.

The Influence of Unions and Business in the 2010 Federal Election: Claims of ‘slash and burn’ and ‘still no response and no answers’