Mastodawn

#MarkOggy may have hit the nail on the head when he wrote:
‘The secrecy around government interactions with the gas industry means that we can only guess why our elected representatives have failed us so badly on this issue. But one thing we can say with certainty is that many of our politicians are too close to the gas industry.’

Whatever the reason all govts have so far utterly failed to look after the interests on ordinary Australians. Now, with more economist finally coming to their senses and pushing for more tax revenue to be garnered off #GasExports , it might give #AlboPM the excuse he needs (because #Chalmers certainly doesn’t need it) to finally be ‘progressive’ as the Labor Party ought to be.

Why Labor and the Coalition fear David Pocock’s gas inquiry

Last week, Senator David Pocock proposed a Senate inquiry into the “extraordinarily low rates of revenue Australians receive from the export of our gas resources.”