Who was it in Keating's 1980s Treasury Dept who pushed the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax as the best way to extract public benefit from offshore oil and gas production? Are they still with us, still influential?
Maybe we should find out.
If you've ever wondered about this GOP being a cult...
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
What a surprise. Hydrogen as fuel, of whatever 'colour', is a non-starter, unless happen to be into rocketry. This was clear from the start, which leaves us wondering, how did this farce come about ...way back to the 'hydrogen economy' BS last century.
My guess: More fossil industry disinformation.
Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥
Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥
Taxing our gas.Today’s Age cartoon.
Time for the NEM in Australia to look at how gas affects Australia’s power price?
www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2026...
Susan McDonald had a bit of a cry for the gas companies saying that they really do pay a lot of tax. I decided to have a bit of a fact check on that
live.thepoint.com.au
It *IS* Australia's worst weed by area infested, so yes of course it should be declared such.
All good, rusteds?
You're hearing it more and more... it's time to tax gas exports!
More than 50 community organisations, including ACOSS and Oxfam, are calling for a 25% export tax.
Australians are fed up with the gas industry not paying its fair share.
✍ Sign the petition: https://theaus.in/41IwWTa
Deja vu. Yes it will be all quiet of the Strait of Hormuz front until about 20 minutes or so before the New York Stock Market opens tomorrow.
We've all seen this movie before.
The US is now 'attacking Atlantic convoys'.
"Norway and Qatar show Australia doesn’t have to give the gas industry a free pass" by @jack-thrower.bsky.social @thepointau.bsky.social
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“And for the government under Anthony Albanese, its noted incrementalist approach may, in the end, add up to more than the sum of its parts. But we probably won’t know until it’s long disappeared in the rear-view mirror.”
Maybe it will, maybe it won’t.
#AusPol
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American politicians so willing to use a religious scripture written 2500 years ago to justify land ownership, but support a President that goes against what is written in the Bible e.g. helping the poor, looking after your neighbor etc.
The calls for a gas tax are getting louder. 50 organisations are trumpeting the cause loudly. It is getting harder for Albo to ignore it without looking like a double douche to Aussie battlers. The real issue will be how far he waters it down from the 25% being called for. #Auspol
Australia’s crossroads on America’s war in Iran www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/interna... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Indeed
He might as well answer in Russian.
But the Pope could excommunicate JD Vance, to set an example.
2 reasons Trump can’t be excommunicated by the Pope…
Firstly, he’s not Catholic..and secondly, he doesn’t understand long words.
Dear ESPN. WWE is fake.
Covering it as sports is a serious breach of your charter.
The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.
The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.
The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.
It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.
Quite frankly anyone travelling to the US voluntarily gets no sympathy from me. They know what they are getting into.
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Anger does not begin to describe my thoughts towards the politicians who made this decision @big-tony.bsky.social @indigenousparty.bsky.social.
"The NSW water minister, Rose Jackson, said she and the environment minister Penny Sharpe were aware of the situation." Do better. #AusPol
“Richard Marles did not deliver a defence strategy. He delivered a sales pitch.
The target is China. The enemy is abstract. The threat is manufactured.
The real purpose is the wealth transfer. The winners are the defence contractors. The losers are the Aus taxpayers.”
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A blue whale’s poo can weigh as much as 4 tonnes, making it the second-largest piece of shit in the world — just behind Donald Trump. 🤷🏻♂️
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing an assembly of renewable energy solutions - solar panels, battery storage, high speed rail, electrified truck freight, EVs and charging infrastructure, wind turbines, and bicycles - put together in a shape that resembles a military tank. A different approach to a massive increase in military spending that would increase Australia's security and sovereignty in times of global unrest.
Best defence.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
