The Gas Vote That Revealed Everything + Head Punt Konrad got on The Weekly With Charlie Pickering

The Gas Vote That Revealed Everything: Hanson's Betrayal, Pocock's Power Move & Albo's Lies

THE SCAM: The major parties and One Nation teamed up to kill David Pocock's motion for a 25% gas export tax, siding with foreign corporations over Australian households and manufacturers despite 80% public support.

THE DAMAGE: Families and businesses are getting smashed by power prices while politicians protect gas company profits. It's a total failure of democracy where vested interests win and ordinary punters are left paying the price.

THE COVER-UP/OUTCOME: Hanson tried to spin her way out of it on social media, but the vote is public record. Pocock called it out—we now know exactly who stands with the gas bludgers and who stands with the punters.

 

Head Punt Konrad got on The Weekly With Charlie Pickering

THE HEADLINE: Punter Konrad outlines to Charlie Pickering how Australia gets more tax revenue from beer than from exporting its own gas.

THE FINE PRINT: Every time a punter buys a cold one, the taxman takes a cut, around $2.6 billion a year from beer excise alone. But when foreign fossil fuel giants ship our gas overseas? They pay just $2 billion in total PRRT. That means the bloke at the pub contributes more to the budget than multinationals flogging our national assets.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Ordinary Aussies are getting ripped off on their own resources and the major parties are in on it.

Punter Citations:
The Australia Institute - Tax: Beer drinkers vs gas companies