Jason Nassios
The question is not whether gas companies pay tax. They do, particularly via corporate income tax, which peaked at $12 billion in 2022-23. It has since eased to $10.4 billion. But is the PRRT, which was specifically designed to tax oil and gas, suited to the modern LNG industry?
Australia will become a “junior” partner to the United States and lose its strategic independence if it continues to push ahead with the AUKUS nuclear-submarine deal, according to a former Defence Department analyst.
Former Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has said there is a national appetite for a tax on gas exports, days before the Labor Party's National Conference in Adelaide.
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Claims by the Australia Institute, Senator David Pocock and others about Australia's gas industry are based on publicly available government data.
The Australian Labor Party looks set to include a new tax regime for the export gas industry in their party platform at next week’s ALP National Conference in Adelaide, according to reporting in the Australian Financial Review over the weekend.
According to the most recent Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) data from 2018, theft is the largest source of new illicit weapons in Australia. Every theft adds more guns to the over 200,000 illicit firearms in Australia. Fewer legally owned firearms means there are fewer firearms that can be stolen.
There are calls for an overhaul of Australia’s education funding system after new polling found more than a third of private school parents would have chosen the public system if it had been better funded.
Australia’s biggest conservation organisations have united behind a call to end native forest logging, arguing governments should protect forests for their environmental value rather than use them to offset fossil fuel emissions.
Former defence minister Christopher Pyne has declared the $368 billion AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine program “unstoppable”, telling a public inquiry Parliament should have no role in deciding Australia’s national security arrangements.
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Australia's largest super fund answered just 1 in 10 calls during an independent mystery shopper study that found none of Australia's major funds are delivering an acceptable standard of customer service.
The New South Wales Government has been accused of orchestrating “one of the bigger environmental frauds in Australian history” by using a new carbon credits method to fund a long-promised national park.
Australian parliaments inherited an ancient power from the United Kingdom’s House of Commons: the order for the production of documents (or OPD). These orders require the government to hand over to the Parliament (and make public) documents, reports, data and any other kind of information.
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