Albanese Government’s support of gas industry during war is nothing new
The nation has been through wars before, and history shows us that national governments have tended to let extractive industries dictate tax policy during these periods.
James Watson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Australia Institute. James Watson is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. A graduate of the Australian National University’s School of History, he has written on the intersections of politics, economics, and social movements for The Guardian, History Australia, and Labour History.
The nation has been through wars before, and history shows us that national governments have tended to let extractive industries dictate tax policy during these periods.