Gas export companies are making massive profits from the energy crisis, while everyday Australians are struggling.
✍️ Add your name to the petition to tax the gas industry its fair share
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Deputy Director Ebony Bennett is in Barcelona for the Global Progressive Mobilisation, where the global energy shock due to the war in Iran is a hot topic.
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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
Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap that it makes a profit selling it on to other countries!
Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_royalties
"Take the government’s handouts to fossil fuel industries... the Albanese government controls most of these concessions. If Labor is looking for solutions that balance the budget, it would do well to start there," say Zali Steggall and Monique Ryan.
Read more: https://theaus.in/4thdqJk
A 25% tax on gas exports could end the gas shortages being engineered by the gas industry, cut energy bills and ensure there is enough gas for Australians.
✍ Sign here to support a 25% tax on all Australian gas exports: https://theaus.in/4cdopO0
“When you say things like… we pay more tax on beer than we tax the fossil fuel industry for extracting all this wealth from the land and simply shipping it over as if it belongs to them.
“This is brilliant.”
- @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
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@grogsgamut.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss the latest global economic forecasts & Angus Taylor's immigration policy.
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Trump didn't "single out" Australia, he showed just how isolated the US has become.
"Australia has ready allies who are all trying to grapple with...how we might build a more peaceful world."
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Over half of Australia’s gas exports are given away, without payment of royalties or Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.
Australians are tired of the gas industry not paying its fair share of taxes and royalties.
✍ Sign here to support a 25% tax on all Australian gas exports: https://theaus.in/4tHJm9u
Bill Browne, Director of The Australia Institute's Democracy and Accountability Program, said the High Court decision gave the Victorian parliament a chance to "go back to the drawing board, consult with voters and design a fair political finance system."
Read more: https://theaus.in/41BI9F0
“If you made them pay for the value of the resources and you made them pay their fair share of taxes.
“You wouldn’t have the problems that you have today.”
- Joseph Stiglitz
✍️ Sign the petition to hold our government accountable and back a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/3O9TdpL
✍️ Add your name to the petition for a fairer return for our gas exports!
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Vanuatu Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu is the latest to voice support for a 25% tax on gas exports in Australia!
Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year.
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“We’ve so cooked our tax system that in Australia, the third biggest fossil fuel exporter in the world, when the price of oil and gas and coal go up, we feel poor.
- Dr Richard Denniss
✍️ Sign the petition to hold our government accountable and back a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4csbKWq
“So it’s pretty simple. Big gas is taking the piss.
“That’s right, Australians, they’re taking this piss right out of you.
“Wakey, wakey!”
- Senator Jacqui Lambie
✍️ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4mwOMSt
“Tax the gas corporations who are exporting our gas and making record profits.
“It’s time our government placed a minimum 25% gas export levy to use that revenue to help people.”
- Senator Larissa Waters
✍️ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4tQzJ8L
Australia isn't transitioning away from fossil fuels.
The Albanese Government is just hiding rising emissions under a mountain of 'offsets'.
Read more about our research: https://theaus.in/4sEx2pP
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With Trump spewing threats at friends & foes, the US government has gone off the rails.
@emmashortis.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss the Trump administration's violence & why it’s time for the Australian government to reassess its relationship with the US.
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“The High Court has confirmed what Australia Institute research has shown for years: Victoria’s donation cap, with its many loopholes, is undemocratic,” said Bill Browne, Director of the Australia Institute’s Democracy & Accountability Program.
Read more: https://theaus.in/41E14yS
“When it comes to our resources and our national interest, Australia cannot be meek.
“It cannot be timid.
“And Australia needs to step up and do the same.”
- Hon Ed Husic MP
✍️ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4dOhNqG
"What a ridiculous position for Australia to be in," says Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss.
"Having exported enormous amounts of gas to these countries for decades, are we really being threatened now?"
✍️ Sign to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4mxI9iL
Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Ross Gittins, puts it perfectly:
“This (a 25% tax on gas exports) is low-hanging fruit that Albanese could pluck at no cost to voters and little, if any, threat to the gas industry.”
Too right.
Read more: https://theaus.in/4tRzlqE
✍️ Sign the petition calling for a fair return on our gas
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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.
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“If Australia is to embrace progressive patriotism... then this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to simultaneously repair the budget, improve the quality of public services and lower the cost of living.” - Dr Richard Denniss
Read more: https://theaus.in/4vqJKLg
“This case is fundamentally about protecting Australia’s unique marine environment from a spiralling inventory of contaminated oil and gas industrial waste," said Fern Cadman, fossil fuel industry campaigner at the @wilderness.org.au.
Read more: https://theaus.in/3Q9rUfN
“If there’s one thing we need more of in this world, it’s finding what we have in common and focusing on that rather than on what keeps us apart," writes Hannah Moloney in her latest book, Why We Garden (Affirm Press).
Read the full extract on The Point: https://theaus.in/3OiJwW0
The pressure is on.
Bosses of major gas exporters will be dragged before a Senate inquiry later this month, where they'll be asked to explain why they pay next to nothing for Australia's gas.
Here’s why we’re pushing for a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4sxqhWQ
“Australians agree that our resources belong to us. Gas that is exported from this country should be paid for by the gas companies that exported and a 25% has export tax is the way to go.
- Senator David Pocock
✍️ Sign to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4sCn5Jx
