One by one, miners with Australian operations are slamming Canberra's proposed 40 per cent supertax on resource profits. Canberra has dismissed the protests of BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals, Rio Tinto and Xstrata as huffing and puffing. But miners are upping the ante. Fortescue has already frozen two development projects; now Xstrata has suspended almost A$600m of expenditure on A$6.6bn of coal and copper projects.
在澳大利亚拥有业务的矿商，正一家接一家地抨击澳大利亚政府拟议对资源利润征收附加税。澳大利亚政府将必和必拓(BHP Billiton)、Fortescue Metals、力拓(Rio Tinto)和斯特拉塔(Xstrata)的抗议称之为火气太大、言过其实。但矿商们正加大赌注。Fortescue Metals已冻结两个开发项目；如今，斯特拉塔也已暂停规模高达66亿澳元煤炭和铜项目上近6亿澳元的支出。
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