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For two years, punter Konrad did everything the system said would work. Billboards. Bribing—sorry, gifting — politicians. Free beer for regular punters. TV appearances. A Senate speech. Friendly chats with the very people selling off the country's future. All for one simple thing: make the government stop giving our gas away for free to foreign corporations. And after all that? Nothing.
But then Punter Konrad discovered a second threat: pie shops charging for sauce. Two existential crises — foreign plunder of our gas, punters paying for tomato sauce like mugs. So the quest began: one bottle, one pie shop at a time from the shire of Newcastle. But Australia is big. After countless days, only six pie shops sauced. Lost, alone, running out of hope.
So Punter Konrad put sauce bottles on the website, offering to mail them to any punter willing to walk into their local shop and leave it there. Patriots across the country stepped up, depositing sauce with their own hands. For one moment, punters felt what it's like to be a foreign gas corp: take something for free, feel no shame.
Surely now the PM couldn't ignore us at the Federal Budget?
Albo: "The budget will not undermine existing contracts on gas exports."
The quest continues.
Labor's 50th National Conference is happening right now in Adelaide. Gas is one of the three biggest fights on the floor. Momentum for a gas export tax is building — former leader Bill Shorten backed it on 7:30 this week, and the Treasurer has left the door ajar.
Lets raise our voices again, email your MP right now that saying that we're sick of watching foreign corporations get our gas for free while we pay the price.
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