The TikTok Awards Dystopia, Labor MP ADMITS the Gas Scam & Pauline’s Wagyu Hypocrisy + Wild Strategy From Netflix

The TikTok Awards Dystopia, Labor MP ADMITS the Gas Scam & Pauline’s Wagyu Hypocrisy

THE SCAM: Australia exports the bulk of its gas, yet Aussies are forced to pay inflated international prices. The core deception is that overseas buyers, like Japan, on-sell our gas for massive profit - over a billion dollars last year on volumes that could supply our domestic market. As MP Husic said, we're "forced to cop globally indexed pricing that has absolutely no relationship to the cost of production."

THE DAMAGE: This punishes Australian manufacturers and households with world-high energy bills, despite our resource wealth. It strangles local industry, hikes the cost of living, and surrenders our economic strength, reducing us to what the MP called "pauper status" while foreign corporations win.

THE OUTCOME: Successive governments have been spooked by gas cartels' threats to withdraw investment. While a weak price cap is in place, decisive reform is lacking due to fear of the industry's political and financial clout. The fix is straightforward but untaken: our gas, our prices.

Punter Citations:
MSN - Labor MP goes rogue in call to end 'profiteering' by gas exporters

 

Wild Strategy From Netflix: Rely on Aussies NOT Knowing How the Internet Works

THE SCAM: Netflix made $1.2 billion from Australian punters last year and paid ZERO tax. Its entire business rides on our $50+ billion NBN, yet it contributes nothing. Secret lobbying killed laws to force investment in Aussie TV shows, undermining local culture and jobs.

THE DAMAGE: This is a massive free ride. Regular taxpayers fund the infrastructure and courts Netflix uses, while the company strips potential revenue from public services and actively prevents our screen industry from growing.

THE COVER-UP: Our government is weak. It spent over $50,000 of public money trying to hide documents showing Netflix's successful lobbying. Other countries force streamers to pay up and produce local content; our politicians let them call the shots.

Punter Citations:
AFR - Revealed: The companies paying the most and least tax
Michael West - Burke gets Netflixed. Secret lobbying did the trick for the big streamers