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

Konrad Benjamin on fire in today’s gas tax inquiry, says those claiming “we can’t afford anything” are full of it, we have plenty of resources to benefit from
“This gas issue is the perfect eg of how it’s a lie”
“We’ve been sold out”🔥 #auspol @punterspolitics.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au

Here's my post over on @amyremeikis.bsky.social 's blog on Japanese gas tax...
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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”💥

Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’ Party’s environment action network tells parliamentary inquiry into gas export tax to consider ‘very substantial’ levy on windfall profits * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government is facing internal pressure to raise taxes on gas companies as a prominent social media influencer warns Labor not to underestimate the scale of public outrage about the existing regime. Labor’s environment action network (LEAN) used evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the tax settings for the gas sector to encourage the government to consider a “very substantial tax” on windfall profits. Continue reading...

Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’

I drove an EV for three days. It saved me money but cost me time With no end in sight to soaring fuel prices, 7.30 decided to take an EV for a test drive to see how far it could take our reporter, and if Australia's EV charging network stacks up.

This is disappointing by ABC. I’m not surprised to see 7 Spotlight bashing EVs (helping fossil fuel lobby) but expect better of the ABC. This whinge about EVs doesn’t mention $ savings from not buying petrol. Also, how about cutting emissions? Climate change? Hello?
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Here’s the factcheck on the 7 Spotlight hit job. We all see what you’re doing here @7news.bsky.social and you should be utterly ashamed! We know Stokes has fossil fuel interests, but what’s the ABC’s excuse?

Ty Seattle for ‘10 things I hate about you’. I 💕 this movie and so do my kids.

"Budgetary make-believe": Marles lifts defence spending, mistaking spending targets for strategy Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has released the defence strategy you have when you don’t have a defence strategy. What the Deputy Prime Minister offers as justification for this strategy requiri...

Rip snorter of a column by Allan Behm: "Budgetary make-believe": Marles lifts defence spending, mistaking spending targets for strategy

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The war on renewables is really about protecting fossil fuel profits As global fossil fuel prices surge amid conflict, attacks on Australia’s energy transition are intensifying – driven by industry interests that stand to lose from cheaper, more reliable renewables.

As fossil fuel prices surge, attacks on renewables and Chris Bowen are ramping up.
The backlash says more about protecting fossil fuel profits than fixing Australia’s energy system, Giles Parkinson writes.
#auspol #Energy #Renewables #Climate #FossilFuels

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Santos calls for oil drilling support as protestors crash Adelaide AGM - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia While protestors gathered at the Santos AGM its CEO called for policymakers to support major Australian oil and gas projects.

“Three quarters of South Australians want corporations like Santos to start paying for the damage that they’re doing. A good start would be putting a 25% tax on gas exports... [to fund] real cost-of-living relief and start cleaning up the environmental damage.” www.indailysa.com.au/news/busines...

Klein: The companies call it “hallucinations.” It makes mistakes. They have not been able to figure out how to fix the mistakes.

And then when you ask the companies, “How did you get there?” they can’t fully explain it. This is a strange thing about this technology.

By avoiding means testing, the government is giving handouts to the rich Australia’s highly targeted tax and transfer system is being eroded by a shift toward universal benefits – redirecting support away from those who need it most.

Australia’s tax and welfare system has long targeted support to those who need it most.
But a shift toward universal benefits is redirecting resources to higher-income households, Robert Breunig @Austaxpolicy writes.
#auspol #Economy #TaxPolicy #Inequality #Welfare

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"These greedy gas corporations are taking the piss."

"They've been price-gouging Australians for far too long, and it's time our government placed a minimum 25% gas export levy to use that revenue to help people."

@larissawaters.bsky.social 👏👏👏
#auspol

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

Just in case you're wondering why the gas industry hates the idea of a 25% gas export tax and wants to keep the PRRT

Tony Abbott recorded a podcast last week with the Denube institute in Hungary (of which is a visiting fellow) saying Orban is Hungary's greatest modern leader and he hoped he got re-elected. danubeinstitute.hu/en/podcast/s...

Exclusive: Former ANU VC accused of ‘serious misconduct’ Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no…

LOLWUT? Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no university qualifications. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Why should Australians listen to an Albanese Govt ad to save fuel when the Albanese Govt refuses to listen to Australians when we ask to distance ourselves from the Trump Administration & their illegal Iran War that caused the fucking fuel crisis in the first place?
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#auspol

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

Fuel price gouging. War profiteering and government dissembling - Michael West Greedy fuel companies are taking advantage of war, while politicians tell us they’re going to deal with greedy fuel companies, but don't.

When the Iran war started and fuel prices went up, Labor ministers were telling the Parliament and public that the ACCC was cracking down on fuel price gouging. But the ACCC wasn’t, because it couldn’t. The Govt knew it, but were engaging in deceit. #auspol

The ultra-wealthy can’t cheat death, but they can use death to cheat taxes. Let me explain.

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A regime of idiots: A complete inventory of Trump stooges They will remain, festering, awaiting the next opportunity for soul-selling.

New in PN: A regime of idiots — A complete inventory of Trump stooges

"The downside of Trump’s reliance on sub-mediocre stooges is they amplify his own stupidity & terrible judgment. Dumb stooges inevitably emulate his sadism & laziness, leading to a govt marked by sociopathology on a grand scale."

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UK blocks rapper Kanye West from entry over anti-Semitism and Nazi support

UK blocks rapper Kanye West from entry over anti-Semitism and Nazi support https://aje.news/avvw11

Visual aid for the people in the back:

Pete Hegseth is profiteering off war. Putting service members at risk, decisions getting people killed, and somehow turning it into a money-making venture.

Exploitation for profit. And it’s not just Hegseth.