Mining industry threatens to unleash ad campaign against Labor unless it rules out windfall profits tax

Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Tania Constable has issued a threat to campaign against ‘bad policies’ amid calls to tax windfall profits. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The mining lobby has urged the Albanese government to rule out taxes on the sector or face an ad campaign akin to one that derailed the Rudd government’s super profits tax.

On Thursday the Minerals Council of Australia’s chief executive, Tania Constable, issued the threat to campaign against “bad policies”, opening a new front between resource employers and the government who are already at war over proposed industrial relations changes.