The Gas Tax Question Albo Won't Answer, Policing Speech, Ties & Our Senate Inquiry Testimony + The Real NDIS Fraud Isn't The Fraudsters + Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources + Give Us a Fair Squeeze

April 23, 2026

The Gas Tax Question Albo Won't Answer, Policing Speech, Ties & Our Senate Inquiry Testimony

THE SCAM: Queensland police arrested protesters for saying six words: "from the river to the sea". The Liberal state government banned the phrase, making a political slogan a criminal offence. Meanwhile, crooks and thieves roam free while cops police speech.

THE DAMAGE: Australians are being arrested for words, not actions. The law criminalises peaceful political expression, forces courts to decide which songs are legal (John Farnham's 'Two Strong Hearts' has the same phrase), and erodes free speech piece by piece while the government claims it's "doing something".

THE OUTCOME: Headlines read "Protesters arrested at pro-Palestine rally" – omitting the key detail: arrests were for a phrase, not a crime. Making something illegal only guarantees more people will say it.

Punter Citations:
ABC - Protesters arrested at Brisbane pro-Palestine rally featuring banned phrase

The Real NDIS Fraud Isn't The Fraudsters

THE SCAM: The real NDIS fraud isn't the street-level scammers. It's the system itself. Governments turned disability care into a privatised market, guaranteeing waste from day one. Experts warned in 2015 it would "open the floodgates to dodgy for-profit providers". Ignored. The fraud was designed in.

THE DAMAGE: Disabled people become business risks. Providers refuse unprofitable clients like Francis – a 20-year-old with autism. Taxpayers get ripped off while private companies churn care money into logos, websites and 10% margins. The cost blew out $100 billion beyond any other social service.

THE COVER-UP: The media wants you screaming at alleged scammers. Easier than facing the truth. The real rot is legal, systemic and at scale. "Crack down on fraud" just spends more money avoiding the fix. Both sides keep doing it – childcare, VET, nursing homes. Privatisation fails. They do it anyway. Banking on you not noticing.

Punter Citations:
ABC, 2015, NDIS: Warnings privatising scheme could lead to dodgy operators more interested in profit than people

Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources

THE MISSION: Get a 25% export tax on Gas and raise $17 billion a year for Australia.

WHAT HAPPENED: This week Konrad and Richard Denniss, from the Australia Institute, were the first to appear in from of a Senate Inquiry on Gas. Konrad pointed out that Australia holds all the cards. We are a stable democracy with enormous natural resources. The question punters have is simple: how are we holding all the cards yet still losing? Richard revealed that the Japanese government collects around $8 billion per year from taxing Australian gas imports. That is more than the Australian government collects from its own gas exports.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Australia is getting ripped off. The gas industry pays close to bugger all tax. And the politicians who wrote the rules keep going to work for the same companies. The solution is simple. A 25% gas export tax. $17 billion a year. Lower domestic prices. And a government that finally works for the people who elected it.

Konrad has blown up after is fantasic testimony, we have counted 17 different articles, TV and radio interviews - the great thing? Mainstream media has finally covered Punters and the Gas Scam! 9News, The Daily Telegraph, News.com.au and more - check the whole list on Patreon.

The Hearing in Full

ABC Breakfast Interview

The Guardian Summary

SBS News Summary

Give Us a Fair Squeeze

THE MISSION: Getting Free sauce into every pie shop in Australia, why? To call out the gas scam.

THE UPDATE: Stickers are now live on the website (see below!), punters can buy them and slap them on sauce bottles in their local pie shop themselves. We have raised $1,885 of $5,000 to fund free sauce bottles, and 550 free stickers.

WHY IT MATTERS: The May budget is weeks away. The government will decide whether to finally fix the PRRT — or quietly let the gas cartel off the hook again. The sauce campaign keeps the pressure on. Every sticker in every pie shop is a reminder that Australians are watching, organised, and not going away before budget day.