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In 1997 "it was revealed that Western Mining Corporation had quadrupled its forward gold sales at the same time the RBA was planning to sell two thirds of its gold reserves. WMC's CEO, Hugh Morgan, was a member of the board at the time. He did not, and was not required to, absent himself from the board discussions which dealt with the gold sales." [http://afr.com/premium/articles/2005/12/08/1133829715143.html]

:"As the CEO of Western Mining and a member of the [[Business Council of Australia]], Morgan’s anti-greenhouse activism reached extreme levels. He was influential in the [[Australian Aluminium Council]] and was responsible for establishing the greenhouse sceptics collected together in the [[Lavoisier Group]]. He described the AGO’s four discussion papers on emissions trading as “Mein Kampf declarations” and has railed against the Kyoto Protocol as a devious plot by European bureaucrats to seize control of the Australian economy. Despite these extraordinary views Morgan has enjoyed unparalleled access to the Prime Minister." [http://www.tai.org.au/WhatsNew_Files/WhatsNew/CC%20in%20Adelaide%20Final.pdf]