Post #1513422

2026-04-21 11:56 UTC

Former Treasury boss Ken Henry couldn’t be clearer: just tax the gas giants. These are public resources, yet the profits are privatised while Australians pay more for energy. The only way the country benefits is through fair taxation. Ignore the self serving spin and tax windfall profits properly. It’s not radical, it’s common sense. #auspol #gas #fairshare #costofliving #gastax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7kejzCvH-k

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@mojo@aus.social 2026-04-21 12:16

A Senate inquiry into taxing gas has heard that South East Asian nations are getting more value out of Australian gas than taxpayers here, with the government now facing increasing pressure to impose a flat tax on gas exports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDH1mp2l_X8

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@mojo@aus.social 2026-04-21 12:19

New Australia Institute research shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government makes from the export of our gas. Not only has Australia been literally giving more than half of the gas we export away for free, we now learn that the same Japanese Government that is opposed to us putting a tax on our gas and coal exports, has been raking in billions of dollars per year via their own tax on gas and coal imports. #auspol #gas #fairshare #costofliving #gastax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDebVmoB2V4

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@kauer@aus.social 2026-04-21 12:29

@mojo@aus.social Good t-shirt text.

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