ASIO Can Now Secretly Jail You, Japan Demands Free Gas & The Nanny State Comes For E-Bikes + HEADLINE WITH KEY PLAYERS AND OUTCOME
ASIO Can Now Secretly Jail You, Japan Demands Free Gas & The Nanny State Comes For E-Bikes
THE SCAM: ASIO has been granted powers to secretly detain and interrogate Australians indefinitely — no court warrant required, just attorney-general sign-off.
THE DAMAGE: Any Australian can be held incommunicado, interrogated without right to silence, and jailed for non-compliance - without being suspected of a crime. Children as young as 14 are not exempt.
THE OUTCOME: Both major parties signed off. No sunset clause, no independent oversight. The checks and balances are gone - and almost no one is talking about it.
Punter Citations:
Michael West - Civil liberties. Senate to approve extraordinary ASIO powers
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HEADLINE WITH KEY PLAYERS AND OUTCOME
THE SCAM: Australia's gas lobby ran to Sky News and the Financial Review for softball coverage - using "we" and "our" language to pretend gas profits benefit everyday Australians. They don't. The industry takes 56% of our gas for free and returns just $1.5 billion in royalties on $92 billion in export revenue.
THE DAMAGE: High gas prices are driving up electricity costs for households, manufacturers and small businesses. Meanwhile Japan's Inpex pocketed over $1 billion reselling cheap Australian LNG in 2024 alone — and the gas companies banked $50 billion in windfall profits during the Russia-Ukraine war.
THE COVER-UP: Murdoch media ran interference while the industry cried poor. Norway taxes its gas at 78% and companies are still profitable. PM Albanese has now requested modelling on a gas and coal tax — the pressure is working.
Punter Citations:
The Guardian - Never waste a fuel crisis: the Albanese government must seize the moment and start taxing gas companies
THE MISSION: To make Australia's gas companies pay their fair share - the same way Norway does.
THE UPDATE: The government has leaked it's modelling a new tax on gas and coal companies. That's not an accident — that's pressure working. The Australia Institute's released a gas giveaway tracker, putting the cost of inaction at $49.8 million every single day. Since 2022, we've missed out on over $68 billion in revenue that could have gone to punters, not shareholders.
WHY IT MATTERS: The modelling is happening because the noise got loud enough. A 25% gas export tax — the same rate the Greens and Senator Pocock are pushing — would have netted $63.8 billion in just three years. Lets keep the pressure up.
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