Think about this. The Prime Minister of Australia is now openly quoting inaccurate talking points from the gas lobby. Not ATO data. Not his own government's budget papers - talking points from a bunch of foreign-owned companies taking an entire nation for a ride.

This is such a great point.

Albanese was asked about a gas tax on SBS, and a few of his answers sounded more like gas company spin than a government making sure Australians get a fair return for their resources! @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

How can anybody take a news article seriously when it begins with the phrase ... "A coalition government would ..." ?

Under questioning from @larissawaters.bsky.social, @senatorwong.bsky.social has just told the Senate a gas reservation policy is better than a gas export tax because “revenue matters”. A gas tax would raise $17 billion. A gas reservation would raise $0. That's Coles "down down" level nonsense.

The Liberal Murdoch budget bed wetting is hilarious. It's like they think they're relevant or something 😄😁😂

Excellent analysis of what fairly taxing gas exports could pay for: live.thepoint.com.au/2026/05/the-...

Hume, Duniam and Wilson whining that changes to CGT and neg gearing will deny young Australians the chance to buy investment properties. Do they even know, thanks to Howard, there's a generation for whom a home, let alone a bloody investment property, is an impossible dream? Irrelevant clowns.

All this plotting, like they're proposing meaningful reform. Most of the meetings were probably about how they water it down. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Is there something worse you could do in your career than representing an asbetos company? I guess you could try to destroy one of Australia's leading universities ... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

I think this is what they call a good start www.canberratimes.com.au/story/924227...

New Australia Institute polling shows 59% of Australian voters believe Trump is a greater threat to global security than Putin or Xi. A year ago, it was just 31%. "Most Australians are ready to break up with Donald Trump's version of America." @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

This is how much One Nation cares about Farrer. They screw over a local business - cancelling their election night gathering four days before the vote. Dog act. www.bordermail.com.au/story/924037...

"Rich Kid, Poor Kid reinforces the urgency and devastation of the school funding problem in Australia. @janecaro.bsky.social delivers the story in a way that should propel readers into action" says Elisa Di Gregorio in The Conversation theconversation.com/australias-f...

$43 billion a year in profit and they still want to milk us for more. Where does it end? Our greedy banks don't care if Australians can put a roof over their heads ... or have to sleep under a bridge ... so long as they're making tens of billions. australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

I just want to curl up the corner and cry. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Who's gonna tell him?

It's pretty wild especially in the context of Japan. The power is all in Australia's hands - but the PM acts like its the reverse.

Premier Malinauskas was warned that LIV Golf would leave Adelaide at some future time. Still, he annexed 86 hectares of the Adelaide Park Lands and approved plans to cut down 585 mature trees … in the name of a tournament. #reckless #saparli

Yesterday Albanese gave $1.1bn to the Kwinana Westport container terminal proposal. Today Will Tracey the WA Branch Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia writes it's a dud project that should be dumped @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

The more things change, the more they stay the same:

Imagine being granted the privilege of governing a whole nation ... Then being too scared to do what you know in your heart to be right. On anything. Real reform has never been more urgent. But that's the last thing this government seems interested in. australiainstitute.org.au/post/not-the...

"Don’t let gas giants scare you - they need to cough up" www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Labor didn’t have the ″⁣ticker″⁣ for a fight with the online gambling lobby. It’ll be the same with the gas lobby. David Cayzer, Clifton Hill The Age, letters

In the same week the government cut disability and aged care services, it's caving in to foreign gas companies again. This industry has captured our politicians for years. Fancy pinning our hopes on the most cautious, do-nothing Labor government of my lifetime. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

I hope I'm wrong, but it would seem this government is happy to put foreign gas exporters ahead of elderly and disabled Australians. Everybody who loses even a single therapy session provided by the NDIS will be (at least a little bit) worse off. Just as long as gas companies aren't worse off ...

Journo's desperately trying to find ways to question a gas export tax. A ripper to David Pocock this morning was "could you afford a sudden 25% increase in your mortgage repayments?" Pocock's answer was brilliant ... If I got the house for free, like the gas industry gets its gas, then yes!!!!!!

As the govt weighs options to raise revenue, balance the budget & confront the global energy crisis, one solution is staring them in the face: replace the broken PRRT with a fair tax on gas exports. It's long overdue, and has widespread support… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Taking from disabled people to give to people in aged care is a cynical political exercise from Labor. Pitting people who genuinely need care against each other while leaving $17 billion in the pockets of gas corporations they’re too cowardly to tax is shameful.

Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥 Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥

Poor Qantas. What a great opportunity to cut those pesky less profitable routes and hike prices. Just as long as they keep making a couple of billion a year in profits. That's what's important. www.afr.com/companies/tr...

"The report said that although profits were taxed at a higher rate, the Norwegian government also took on project and development risk via direct equity holdings in gas projects." Cool, better nationalise the industry then.

Old mate Susan Mcdonald's written an op-ed asking who funds The Australia Institute. That's easy. We have many vested interests: like an interest in making Australia better, fairer, healthier, cleaner, kinder ... Her vested interests? Those who wine and dine her ... and fund her?

" In the first three months of this year, oil CEOs sold $1.4 billion worth of their own stock—the fastest pace of selling in 15 years. At a dozen companies, the selling broke all-time records" heated.world/p/chevrons-c...

Dear international friends, Do not travel to the United States this summer for the World Cup. It isn't safe for us, and it's absolutely not safe for you. Sincerely, An American citizen

Media normalising threats to wipe out a civilisation as a negotiating tool is just plain wrong.

Fancy a pre-Easter political chin-wag? Jump onto our Unparliamentary webinar at 11am. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Called it! Just sayin'.

Any danger the pudgy orange draft dodger steps off the golf course for a minute and thinks about ending the war he started as a political distraction?

Senator Susan McDonald is "alarmed" at the prospect of a gas export tax. Of course she is. She goes to the footy as a guest of Santos. And represents a party whose major donors are Adani and Gina Reinhart. Another slimy politician putting self interest ahead of ordinary Australians.

This is long overdue. Fingers crossed it doesn't end up being a half-arsed, watered-down, loophole-filled, pretend tax. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Backseat driver. My @smh cartoon.

Joke, no joke ...

Australia's gun laws in major need of reform. 200,000+ gun owners in don't use their weapons for the reasons stated on their licence. This is a major security risk for the community Great story on SMH front page on important new @australiainstitute.org.au research. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The gutless coalition (including the Nats' "brave" new leader) is so captured by the gas industry, they didn't even show up to vote on David Pocock's wildly popular (among voters) idea to examine why Big Gas pays less tax than beer drinkers. Yet when they flop in SA/Farrer, they'll wonder why.

NFF and Service Stations: Whatever you do don't run a fear campaign about fuel supply: Every LNP question: We're running out of fuel!! OMFG!!! What will you do???!!!!! live.thepoint.com.au

An Iranian general learns Australian sailors were on a sub which sank his warship. He's lashing out everywhere, bombing embassies, hotels, airports. Is Australia now a target? Does it even matter that our dumb politicians think it's not significant our military personnel helped sink his ship?

Anyone looking for a new job? Woodside is hiring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhok...

Big gas is law unto itself. It owns most of our politicians. But don't the gas fat cats look uncomfortable when they finally get called out? Greedy bastards fracking our kids' future.