Larissa Waters asks former Treasury chief Ken Henry if it’s too simplistic to say wartime gas profits from the war on Iran can either go to Australians, or to overseas investors & shareholders.
Henry “That’s not simplistic, that’s how it is!” “It is as simple as that.” 💥 #auspol
"The price of gas paid by Japan will not increase when we impose this tax."
"The profits made by the people selling the gas will fall."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Deputy Emperor has no clothes?
Australia needs an independent defence policy that makes us safer, not one that ties us closer to unhinged billionaires like Trump.
We should not be locking ourselves deeper into US weapons systems and dependence on a country whose politics can shift overnight.
Rip snorter of a column by Allan Behm: "Budgetary make-believe": Marles lifts defence spending, mistaking spending targets for strategy
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Job Ready Graduates requires urgent reform, but the current proposal being considered by the Senate risks more university cuts, says the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Read more: humanities.org.au/news/job-rea...
And also because evidence does not simply find itself.
Australia's gas exports rose by $48 BILLION in a decade.
In that same decade, revenue from the petroleum resources rent tax FELL by $450 million.
The PRRT is broken. This is why Australia needs a 25% gas export tax.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
It has arrived! The 200th volume in the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism series. A landmark study of the afterlives of Caribbean slavery in Australia. Come and help us celebrate while discussing imperialism, past, present & future?
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From the Nine papers, unusual frankness about the Australian govt's most obscenely wasteful, stupid and dangerous 'defence' commitment. #AUKUS #auspol
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If gas prices stay at current levels, a 25% gas export tax could cover the cost of free uni and TAFE!
"Australia's natural gas resource belongs to all Australians. So it should only be exploited if the community benefits in a very tangible and material way."
@andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social #auspol
Only a quarter of Australians support Trump’s war on Iran and only a third back the Australian government sending ADF forces to the Gulf in response.
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So it seems the US side was totally incompetent. Epic Fury of confused old men
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“The gas industry is clearly worried that a vast majority of Australians believe there should be a 25% tax on gas exports,” writes Greg Jericho, Chief Economist of The Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4dDifrt
The verdict: True. Australia exports gas so cheaply that Japanese companies profit from on-selling our gas.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4rS2dNL
New polling by The Australia Institute shows most Australians are in favour of a flat 25 per cent tax on gas exports.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4bY5B58
"why does Australia retain these bases on the other side of the world, other than to serve US interests?"
The govt fails to distinguish "Australia’s genuine security interests from those of a brazenly imperialist ally led by an unhinged predator." - Richard Tanter.
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When a librarian discovered a chalk sketch of a mother and baby in a 500-year old copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Prof Jaynie Anderson thought it could be by Giorgione. She discusses the on the international connections that ultimately proved her hypothesis correct 👉 bit.ly/4sViLp6
*stares directly at Sanae Takaichi*
“These are Australian resources, and the Australian public deserves to share in these gains . . . When Australian consumers pay the price, Australians should share the profits." - @allegraspender.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4duPgpJ
Yet another reminder - as if we needed one - that it doesn’t matter how much you give him. It’s never enough. This is always the outcome.
“Australia doesn’t have a shortage of houses, a shortage of gas, or a shortage of bullshit about housing and gas supply,” writes Richard Denniss, co-CEO of The Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4bicazj
“Abortion is legal across Australia and this research shows a majority of Australians support access to abortion, whether they live in cities or country towns, or where they sit on the political spectrum.” - Ebony Bennett
Read more: https://theaus.in/4sUeAKp
Defence Minister admits that Australia’s Wedgetail aircraft in the UAE is sending information direct to the US Combined Air Operations Centre that controls US airpower across the Middle East. This is not defensive, it’s critical to US attacks across Iran. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
