“Just do it”: Ken Henry to Senate on gas export tax Former Treasury secretary Dr Ken Henry has delivered blunt advice to a Senate inquiry examining the taxation of gas exports. He urged Canberra to overhaul its tax regime, criticising decades of policy...

Ken Henry: “There is no reason that I can understand as to why Australians should not receive 100 per cent of the windfall gains"
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Talking ourselves into inequality: the new fuel ads, the NDIS and "social cohesion" show how neoliberalism has colonised our tongues Under the pressure of decades of right wing culture wars—which have run parallel to cross party support for neoliberalism—the traditional vocabulary of welfare, redistribution, egalitarianism, and cla...

Very good read. The idea of 'rights and obligations between citizens and the state' has really taken a hit over the last 50 yrs.

I think we should be big enough as individuals to support welfare systems that helps anyone when needed without the guilt trip.
#Auspol

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Rethinking private health: what Australia can learn from abroad This is the third of three articles examining the value private health insurance and private healthcare bring to the Australian health system.

I'd b happy 2 have single-payer model or Beveridge-style model. Either would b significant improvement on AUS's current system which is devolving in2 the US system.
Better care, lower costs, what's not to like.
Now if only we can get #Albo #Labor interested
#Auspol

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Capital gains tax changes are on the table, and yet Armageddon has not arrived. Has the tide on housing turned at last? | Greg Jericho We are less than a month out from the budget and Labor’s mooted adjustments to tax concessions for property investors have barely registered

My column: "Capital gains tax changes are on the table, and yet Armageddon has not arrived. Has the tide on housing turned at last?"

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Is there really untold oil wealth in Queensland’s Taroom Trough? Here’s why scepticism is warranted During the 1973 oil shock, Queensland promised to open a huge oilfield. History is repeating as Australia searches for secure supplies of fuel.

The "sea of oil" in the Taroom Trough, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli cosplaying oil driller proclaimed excitedly from the location earlier this month. So what is down there & what are the issues? Kevin Morrison from UTS with some perspective. #qldpol
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CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries Chinese group also slashes charging time in race against BYD for electric vehicle battery supremacy

We are not far from #EVs that will not only charge faster than a petrol car can refuel, but also go further than a petrol car..

I'm sure even at that point, many Diesel and fossil fuel lovers will claim #Evs just arn't there yet..
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Senator David Pocock speaks in parliament NEW EPISODE | David Pocock on getting a fair return for Australian gas Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts

Australia is one of the largest gas exporters in the world, but Australians don't get a fair return for this finite resource.

@davidpocock.bsky.social joins @richarddenniss.bsky.social & @leanneminshull.bsky.social to discuss the case for a 25% gas export tax. #auspol

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The rate of tech progress in elec cars & batteries will only continuing to accelerate while combustion tech is stagnant.

The Point Live: Business and gas companies have their say on gas tax proposals. Representatives from the Business Council, Shell and ConocoPhillips are among those fronting the gas tax senate inquiry today, while the health minister lays out proposed changes to the NDIS.

Holy moly.

The head of the Queensland Resources Council just told the Gas Tax Committee "all Australians are benefiting from higher prices"
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From September 2026, Google is pushing a forced, irreversible update that removes your ability to install software they haven't approved on a device you own, with no consent and no way to reverse it.

Charts showing Shell's Queensland operations earned $32.292bn 2014-15 to 2022-23 and paid $0 company tax

Shell Oil now up. Telling us they are "nation building"

The Petroleum Resources Rent Tax is broken. Australians deserve a fair return for our resources.

A 25% tax on gas exports would raise $17 billion a year (which yes, is far more than $6.9 billion over four years!)

📺 @richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol

Imagine being a snr exec in a massive company and knowing as little as this individual. I think the phrase I'm looking for is 'grossly incompetent'.. or maybe 'deliberately deceitful'.. or both
#Auspol
#TaxGas #TaxCorporationsProperly

Australia Institute research shows Australia’s gas tax system is failing – billions in exports, but falling returns to the public.

These are Australia’s resources. It’s time we get a fair return.

✍️ Add your name to the petition calling for a 25% tax on gas exports: https://theaus.in/3OIgCP4

Some senior bureaucrats earn more than $1 million a year. How did we get here? Many department heads earn more than the prime minister or treasurer. It’s a situation that’s now under review.

'Pay peanuts get monkeys' always been response 2 attempts 2 rein in exec pay. I'd prefer cheap monkeys (less cruel more competent). Want more than $350K, go 2 private sect
#Auspol

Some snr bureaucrats earn more than $1 mill a year. How did we get here? theconversation.com/some-senior-...

Volvo electric semi scores another real-world win with Coca-Cola Pepsi may grab headlines with their Tesla tie-in, but arch rival Coca-Cola is quietly building an electric semi truck fleet of its own.

So China & Tesla don’t steal all the headlines, Volvo Trucks (Volvo Group) quietly put 5,000+ electric trucks into real-world deployment, logging 100+ million zero-emission miles over the past five years.

Not under Geely. Not hype. This is happening. EV trucks are scaling everywhere, all at once.

The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout Frustrations at slow global climate talks has led more than 50 nations to begin plans to phase out fossil fuels – even as oil shocks raise the stakes.

#Australia is attending so that's a positive.
If ur interest is national defence, protecting sovereignty then U should b supporting transition to renewables
#Auspol

The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: former minister Ed Husic on why Labor must ‘stare down’ gas companies over tax The former cabinet minister said Australians have been ‘sold short’ by not taxing gas exports enough.

Husic seems to have a good things to say.
Worth the read.
#Auspol

Politics with Michelle Grattan: former minister Ed Husic on why Labor must ‘stare down’ gas companies over tax
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How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew There’s a lot going on in your brain all the time. To power your imagination, the neurons need some silence.

Interesting read.
I wonder how it works in people who are born blind?
#Science is awesome.

How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew
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“In Australia we don’t tax [the gas] industry. It’s foreign owned, and other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia’s fossil fuel exports.

“And we’re the ones going ‘Gee, the air conditioning is a bit expensive’”.

✍ Support a 25% gas tax: https://theaus.in/4ty8hNq

Don't believe the empty threats from the gas industry that they'll leave if Australia taxes its gas exports properly.

Inpex are looking to invest RIGHT NOW in high-taxing Norway. They're taking the piss.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

The Gas Cartel is Panicking | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

A big majority in Parliament - a 25% gas export tax is a no-brainer for $10B a year. Albo and Jim Chalmers, don't let a good crisis go to waste. Fix Budget, reshape Australia #auspol

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Did you know that 83% of Australia’s gas is used for exports?

Australia Institute research shows Australia exported enough gas in five years to supply the country for over 20 years.

✍ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4tWQy1H

Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol

25% you say, Angus? 😱

There's a 78% tax on gas profits in Norway, and they're doing just fine. But I guess their political leaders aren't captured by oligarchs ... 🙄
#auspol

Queensland media, Jarrod Bleijie & David Crisafulli are literally laughing at you in the corridors of parliament.

What's it going to take to wake you up? #qldpol

The IMF is worried the energy crisis could lead to a 'wage-price spiral'

But no mention of a profit-price spiral... 🤔

Even though last time war made gas prices spike, the IMF itself said HALF of Europe's inflation was due to PROFITS
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

My favourite line so far from the Gas Tax committee is Susan McDonald "I probably know more than 20,000 people who work directly and fairly closely directly with the gas industry."

C'mon Susan, the Santos corporate box for the Wallabies vs Argentina Rugby Test Match wasn't that big

New Australia Institute research shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing Australian gas than the Australian Government!

"They're taxing our gas. There's no reason we can't."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Chart showing 2014-15: Exports $16.9bn 2024-25: Exports $64.6bn 2014-15: PRRT $1.9bn 2024-25: PRRT $1.4bn

The gas industry has chosen to focus on exports, the PRRT was set up to tax oil in the Bass Strait. It ain't working

That's why we need a 25% tax on gas exports