Australia Institute research shows over half (56%) of gas exported from Australia attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free. It’s time the gas industry started paying its fair share.
Speakers:
+ Senator David Pocock, Independent Senator for the ACT
+ Senator Jacqui Lambie, Jacqui Lambie Network Senator for Tasmania
+ Rex Patrick, Former Senator for South Australia
+ Steve Murphy, National Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
+ Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor, the Australia Institute
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is being urged to make coal and gas corporations pay for Australia’s rising cost of climate disasters.
Taxpayers wear a significant share of the cost of cleaning up old mines
Welfare advocates have criticised the Albanese government’s response to a second damning report from the Commonwealth Ombudsman that links stigma against welfare recipients to unlawful suspensions of Centrelink payments.
Governments in Australia have been put on notice – as the climate crisis escalates, so will we.
