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We don’t launder Tucker Carlson’s reputation here.

He deserves to be viewed as a deplorable and avowed White Supremacist he always has been.

If anything, we use his “apology” video only a useful tool to share with Trump cultists still entrapped by the right wing propaganda as news ecosystem.

And yet he abased himself in front of a racist, corrupt pile of Orange Shit

May that be written on his tombstone.

Without stating your age, post a movie that was released when you turned 18.

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

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 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

It's wage-price spiral alert day!

The AI slopaganda videos on fuel production have come to Australia....check out Leo's thread

a cahrt showing exports vs projections

Some other things I would've mentioned if it had come up

The Dec 2025 quarter for gas exports was the **first time** in five years Australia's gas exports were lower than every single prior projection for that quarter.

That + the new Ember / IEA reports show Asian gas demand is not forever......

This was a brief pop-in but I did mention @ember-energy.org's new report showing demand for gas is seeing weakening growth particularly in Asia - Australia's main customer

We want a managed transition, not a chaotic painful one. Tax helps achieve that!

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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

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

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That's it for PointLive today. Join along tomorrow when we get to hear Shell, Origin, the BCA and ConocoPhillips tell us all how tough the gas industry is doing and see who can deliver the most industry talking points - them or Susan McDonald (Susun is odds on)
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"Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined"

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. @amyremeikis.bsky.social pointing out Ken Henry said much the same thing as @punterspolitics.bsky.social and yet some journos were all a bit sniffy about Konrad because "not an economist, just a tiktok guy blah blah"
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. @ketanjoshi.co is now up
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Ken Henry: “just do it and stop the crap”
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Susan McDonald telling Ken Henry that the gas industry has enabled parents "to send their kids to boarding school"

The Senator for the Gas Industry really has worked hard today

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they truly think if they do something they'll lose every seat in WA.

And they won't

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I'm not saying the PointLive today is an absolute delightful trashing of Susan McDonald's lobbying on behalf of the gas industry, but I'm not not saying that

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Not sure Susan McDonald is enjoying this particular session. She was just read to filth by Greg Bourne of the Climate Council after she asked about whether he is worried about gas investment going elsewhere: What I would say is that you seem to be suggesting that the smallest of the gas companies should be kept going for year after year after year, and the largest of the gas companies in the world should be taking the profits as they go forward. And I think what we and others are suggesting is, whilst there is an opportunity to get a strong export tax, that money should be reinvested in the country, not in gas, not in coal, not in oil, but in renewable energy, when you renewing the economy as we go forward. That’s why I say the key that so many governments have done is they have not embraced the future. They just hugged the past. And that’s what I am hearing from you.

Some good fire from Greg Bourne of the Climate Council
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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
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Can’t wait to see his face when he learns about discovery

Japan raises more tax revenue from Australian gas exports than Australia does.

Japan has a tax on gas and coal imports that raises more money than Aus PRRT.

Great new research out today @australiainstitute.org.au @richarddenniss.bsky.social

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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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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 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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