Japanese Government collects more tax from Australian gas than Australian Government New Australia Institute research published today shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the

Read the research 📊⤵️
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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.

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US launches tariff refund system as thousands of importers line up More than 330,000 importers paid up to $166bn in tariffs on 53 million shipments ​of imported goods.

More than 330,000 importers paid up to $166bn in tariffs on 53 million shipments ​of imported goods.

Pauline Hanson has a rant about Schrödinger's immigrant…

Netanyahu claimed last week that Magyar invited him to Hungary.

Today Magyar said that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary:

“I made it clear to the Israeli PM — we will not back down... If a state is an ICC member and a person who is wanted enters that territory, they must be detained”

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The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

Senator Susan McDonald helpfully ensuring the gas companies don't need to send their CEO to spout their lines by just repeating them herself.
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Who is opposed:
❌ The Liberal and National parties
❌ Gas companies
❌ Gas lobbyists

Multinationals exports a massive amount of Australian gas. It's only fair we get a reasonable return on it.

Let's recap. Who supports a new tax on gas exports:
✅ Crossbench MPs
✅ 50+ community organisations
✅ CommBank CEO Matt Comyn & former head of BHP Australasia Greg Bourne
✅ Climate groups
✅ Economists
✅ Labor MPs, including Ed Husic
✅ Liberal MP Andrew Hastie
✅ More than 6 in 10 Australians…

Gas tax fight escalates ahead of budget as inquiry begins Calls are growing for a new 25 per cent tax on gas exports to increase the petroleum resource rent tax on windfall profits, but companies have warned any changes would jeopardise Australia's energy su...

As the govt weighs options to raise revenue, balance the budget & confront the global energy crisis, one solution is staring them in the face: replace the broken PRRT with a fair tax on gas exports. It's long overdue, and has widespread support… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Why Barnaby Joyce is going in to bat for the richest Australians — despite One Nation's 'battler' charade Speaking out of both sides of its mouth, One Nation demonises migrants while opposing anything that would limit wealthy local investors hoovering up houses.

Barnaby Joyce is fiercely protective of the CGT discount — a stance which should finally put an end to One Nation’s “battler” charade, @rachelwithers.bsky.social writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/21/c...

“Japan, a country with no gas, oil or coal reserves of its own collected almost $40 billion over the last five years while the Australian PRRT provided only $7 billion to Australians.” - Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, The Australia Institute

🎧 Listen to the full interview: https://theaus.in/4sM88EC

ICE Goons Arrest Wife of U.S. Army Sergeant at Immigration Appointment The army soldier’s wife had a valid work permit at the time of her arrest.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the wife of an active-duty U.S. Army soldier as she was attending an appointment at an immigration office last week.

The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

The sense from Labor's questions on the Gas Tax committee is a big worry about ensuring more gas investment.

Sigh.

The govt seems enamored with a windfall profits tax which will look great in a textbook

Then every year in the budget papers the revenue will be revised down.
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Lebanon Latest: Israel establishes ‘yellow line’ in south Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr brings you the latest on the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

A short 3min video by Al Jazeera journalist Zeina Khodr reports on Israel's crimes in southern Lebanon. Shameful that our AUS Govt does not condemn this. Appalling that our Australian mainstream news media refuses to report it in detail. #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #LebanonUnderAttack
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Japan opens door to global arms market with biggest export rule change in decades TOKYO: Japan on Tuesday (Apr 21) unveiled its biggest overhaul of defence export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons.The move aimed at strengthening Japan's defence industrial base marks another step away from

Japan opens door to global arms market with biggest export rule change in decades - www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/japan-defence-...

The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

Make no mistake - the gas industry know the govt is going to have to do something. So right now it is lobbying like all hell to get a tweak to the PRRT to re-label it a "windfall profits tax".

The govt will claim a win and the gas industry will carry on taking the piss.

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The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

The govt right now is in full “what can we do to look like we’re doing something” mode.

They remain more worried about gas companies than they are voters.

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When prisons expand, policy has already failed Plans to convert a Covid quarantine facility into a prison reflect a justice system responding to pressure with infrastructure instead of addressing the drivers of incarceration.

When prisons expand, policy has already failed johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/when-prison... #Auspol

“[Hind Rajab] was pleading, and her family, and they just got machine gunned to death. I mean, this is horrifying.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @senpeterwelch.govpeeps.us discuss the murder of Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old in Gaza, by the Israeli military.

Watch here: zeteo.com/p/aipac-is-t...

How much longer can the living dead tabloid newspaper survive — in print or digital? Tabloids like those at News Corp are part dead, living in a twilight, zombie world. Meanwhile, broadsheets are transitioning into... well, tabloids.

The power of tabloids like our own Herald-Sun and the UK’s Daily Mail is evaporating. So why are politicians still so afraid of them? www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/21/t...

The gas ripoff. Japan collects more on our gas than we do - Michael West The Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government does from exporters.

So cowed by the foreign gas lobby .. the failure of successive govts is so epic that the Japanese tax *our* Australian gas more than we tax the foreign multinationals which export the stuff
#auspol #TAI @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇

A bitter end to the Rinehart family saga The WA Supreme Court’s verdict this week brings an unsatisfying end for all parties to a long-running mining royalties battle that has blown apart the country’s wealthiest family.

“Perhaps the bigger cost lay in the focus the epic court case brought to her dysfunctional family, across three generations. Some of it we knew already, but the forensic analysis of the court added unfortunate detail.” satpa.pe/ecbhASa

Susan McDonald went on to ask Dr Denniss if he is trying to kill off the fossil fuel industry.
Denniss “No, I want to milk it!”💥

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

In his first term, Trump ripped up the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran.

Now he's trying to bomb & threaten his way to a better outcome & it's failing horribly.

"The negotiating record so far is that President Trump will fold." - @jonatomic.bsky.social

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The Australian Greens are calling on the government to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out.

NDIS infiltrated by organised crime gangs using intimidation and threats of violence against Australians Review recommends better use of NDIS data to identify repeat rorters and a requirement for providers to register with the government

Australian politicians love to claim welfare programs are beset with fraud, even if there's very little evidence, because it justifies cutting welfare spending www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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