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...
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
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
F^*K ZIONISM, ISRAEL & ALL THOSE SUPPORTING & SUCCUMBING TO THEIR EVIL. #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #auspol
Don’t forget to visit Foundry too, it’s a couple of footsteps beyond Nicholson Mall.
Check out V Line services to Bdale. Makes the trip very easy and a nice adventure if time is short.
“Birds avoid turbines:” Two new studies suggest wind farms are not “killing machines” after all reneweconomy.com.au/birds-avoid-...
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
“… China is not merely ahead. It is operating in a different category.”
#Fortescue adds a 15th electric excavator, each of them saving a million litres of #diesel a year, as it advances towards its target of “real zero” by the end of the decade.
Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
Magic.
Keep up the amazing work you’re doing.
As a fuel crisis looms for Australia and the need for alternative fuel sources grows more urgent, the government cuts its enormously popular electric vehicle subsidy program. Mike Seccombe reports. satpa.pe/8gDrSxQ
Australia isn't listed in the worst affected countries here, but I'd be surprised if extreme heat isn't already limiting viable outdoor work hours in northern states, and summer heatwaves.
Electricity bills to fall in state where renewables make up nearly half of generation mix reneweconomy.com.au/electricity-...
Photo of Anthony Albanese in the House of Representatives NEW EPISODE | FFS: fossil fuel subsidies cost Australia $30,000 a minute Listen to Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.
You’re meant to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of.
Yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in subsidies for fossil fuels.
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss why on this episode of Dollars & Sense.
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“The future is uncertain. But its journey from a small UK campaign targeting export finance to a global coalition of governments shows that domestic activism can still lead to ambitious and durable policy change.”
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"We don't have a shortage of supply. We have a glut of greed."
“According to the Australia Institute, around 30% of all gas exported from Australia is not needed to meet contract commitments.”
Great seeing @edhusicmp.bsky.social quoting our research in Parliament yesterday! 👏 #auspol
"Public schooling built on the principles of free, secular and non-discriminatory education serves to break down class, ethnic and religious differences. As the prime minister emphasised, public schools are open to everyone." satpa.pe/tdTaTr5
New data shows more Australians are having a crisis of faith in the transition to #renewables. But workers on the frontline of #community engagement tell a different story.
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies
Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling
A #strawhouse build from start to finish. Combined with conventional materials. You will see, the transition to this is very easy. #strawbuilding #biobased #architecture
Things that are difficult: having a Prime Minister who works for fossil fuel companies' interests over children's futures having a Prime Minister that serves the gambling lobby over children's welfare having a Prime Minister who wants to "strengthen" his relationship with accused paedophile, Donald Trump X not Grace Tame 10:35 AM • Feb 26, 2026
I've got 99 problems and none of them are Grace Tame. But most of them are because of albo.
We need Change.
#Auspol
If you expect better from the Labor Party, then bad luck. It’s one capitulation after another.
Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!
“If countries choose to not reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with previous Paris climate agreement commitments, we can expect to lose many of the ecosystem services coral reefs provide.” – Professor Scott Heron, James Cook University
Read more on the Point: https://theaus.in/46kFNgm
And yet, Murray Watt allows Alcoa to continue destroying habitat.
"Alcoa has been granted a temporary "national interest" exemption to continue clearing land for its bauxite operation while an assessment of its "cumulative environmental impact" is completed."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
