This new repord by the Australia Institute shows the extent to all Australian taxpayers contribute to the #Gas #Corporate #Grifters as a result of our #Labor govt’s support for the #ExtractiveIndustries

“Fossil fuel subsidies cost Australian governments
$16.3 billion in 2025–26, an increase of 9.4% on the
previous year. This is a larger increase than the
7.6% growth of the National Disability Insurance
Scheme. Growth in fossil fuel subsidies is driven by
the Federal Government’s Fuel Tax Credit Scheme,
which cost $10.8 billion in 2025–26. Growth of this
scheme is expected to outstrip spending on a range
of social services including disability assistance,
child care subsidies and aged care.”

If you are going to read anything serious during this 48th Parliament, then read this report and be angry, very angry:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/P1916-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-2026-Web.pdf

This is what #RegulatoryCapture looks like in #NWT. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7118591

#mining #extractiveIndustries #nwtpoli #cdnpoli

This is not just about ‘taking the piss’, it is highway robery.
‘…gas companies are deliberately exporting enough gas to ensure the amount of gas available Australians remains tight in order to keep domestic prices high.’

Ney it’s pillage and rape level skulduggery.
‘Then they use the threat of these engineered “shortages” to pressure Australian governments to approve new gas projects, but since these projects are almost entirely for export, they wreck the environment but do nothing to help lower the prices paid by Australian households and businesses.’

read more
https://thepoint.com.au/explainers/260304-government-lets-big-gas-export-surplus-gas-to-fulfil-export-contracts-instead-of-supplying-australians

#AusPol #PRRT #DomesticGasReserveNow #ExtractiveIndustries #StateTheft #EatTheRich #Antifa

I hate to belabour the point… well, actually, no I don’t. But to put some perspective into Senator #DavidPocock defeated motion to set up a Senate Committee to take a look at #GasExports, here is an interesting article from The Point (Australian Institute) that should have been tabled in the Senate along with the motion (can you do that in the Senate? I don’t know) talking about: ‘New analysis shows Japan is emerging as a major player in global gas trading, despite producing no liquefied natural gas of its own – and it’s all thanks to Australia.’

https://thepoint.com.au/news/260302-japans-rise-as-an-lng-trader-driven-by-resale-of-cheap-australian-gas-reigniting-calls-for-gas-export-tax

#AusPol #TheGreatGasConspiracy #ExtractiveIndustries #StateTheft #TaxReformNow #antifa #EatTheRich #PRRT

Fined $58M — peanuts compared to profits to be had. They should’ve had their licence to mine revoked, taken away for a period no shorter than the time it takes for the trees to grow the size they were when felled illegally.

Australian govts really don’t give a shit about the environment, the ecosystems these support (include ours) and the harm to the planet they are encouraging. We’ll all suffer as a result with very few, if any, way out of the mess they’ve allowed #ExtractiveIndustries to get away with.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/alcoa-fined-for-clearing-jarrah-forest-for-bauxite-mine/106359988

Thinking aloud here…

If our govt keeps on subsidising #extractiveIndustries and more specifically #FossilFuelIndustries until the latter are driven out of business (being hopeful here) by renewables, how are we going to finance the clean up of the mess they’ve left behind?

1) end exractive industries subsidies (esp Fossil Fuels)
2) increase the PRRT to something meaningful like 80% (a la Denmark)
3) do it now!

@AlboPM
#AusPol

"A growing ( #NewBrunswick ) province-wide coalition is resisting American-backed #mining, gas, and #data centre projects they say threaten #publichealth and #Indigenous land." https://breachmedia.ca/new-brunswick-united-states-extractive-projects-mining-oil-gas-data-centres/

#climateCriminals #WaterisLife #RiseUp #nbpoli #cdnpoli #extractiveIndustries

Another bone headed proposal designed to serve the #mining industry and wage war on a fragile #Arctic #ecosystem. The Carney Cons have been totally captured by #extractiveindustries. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-economic-security-corridor-grays-bay-benefits-9.7023113

#cdnpoli #nwtpoli #colonialism #imperialism