Why is the tax payer pouring $2.5b into Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelter? | ABC NEWS
A bailout of the country’s largest aluminium smelter will cost taxpayers $2.5 billion dollars, with the New South Wales and federal governments expected to split the bill down the middle.
RN Breakfast’s Tom Crowley explains the rationale behind the government pouring billions into the smelter.
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