The funniest thing about this to me is that everyone at my work who is shouting about needing a gas tax was also livid when petrol stations immediately put their prices up the moment Iran was attacked.

Putting a hefty tax on LNG exports in the middle of an ongoing energy crisis would just make us look like profiteering cunts. Yeah we need to tax it, either at any point in the last 20 years (The Liberal party loves to forget that they could have done this at any time when they were in power too) or as soon as global supply stabilises.

Gutless cunt

Wouldn't want to upset the campaign donors.

sooo fucking useless.

thinks if he sucks up to fossil fuel lobby they wont campaign against his gov... which is just delusional, like appeasing newscorp.

edit: https://aus.social/@nordacious/116486812917823694

Well, we all know where albo has his nest feathered.

He sure as hell is not a man of the people, rather, a man of foreign corporate interest.

Lobbying. We have to take control of it, and cut the corruption out at the knees.

Fucking coward government.

Unpopular decision, potentially smart politics:

Albo knows taxing gas exporters is a popular decision.

He also knows that:

• The Greens are for it
• The Liberals are against it
• One Nation's follows are for it, but their politicians get paid by big resources execs and they'll withhold funding or move funding back to the liberal party if One Nation politicians back the tax on exporters.

The politically smart move for Albo now is to say they're not going to add the tax, then 6 months before the next election he switches to wanting it implemented and makes it one of their primary running issues.

• The libs won't have any support for it (further hurting their chances of being elected)
• People will say that One Nation is only pretending to support it since they get funding from the resource extraction sector.
• And the greens will already be running on it with most of their preferences flowing to labor anyway.

I have been onboard with increased resource taxes for a very long time.

I have to admit the middle of a global supply crunch and impending global recession with several years of inflationary pressure is kind of a shit time to be wrenching on the control knobs. Especially when the government has been leveraging our fossil fuel capacity to obtain access to refined fuel required for farming and industry. These reforms should have happened under Rudd or Gillard.

There are some on the right whose handlers do not want these taxes who know the government is not in a good position to do anything currently but are happy to benefit from the rising discontent.

Meanwhile the left is crucifying the ALP and its driving people to ON and not to the Greens or Socialists. ON are thoroughly owned by the mining industry and people like Gina. Its a massive own goal. Much like all the idiots who campaigned against the admittedly shit Dems in the US and drove people to Trump. Stupid, spiteful and immature.

On the other hand Albo needs to get the message that he serves us and not elites. He is going to need to make concessions and start tackling tough issues or populists are going to come in on a wave of lies and wipe out the piddly incremental gains his government has made on top of decades of Labor reforms. We can't afford that bullshit in the current information environment.

I am all for a hike in Gas taxes. I am also impressed that the article lists the Governments reasons up front in the sub heading. Albo just spent the past few weeks tradeing access to our Gas exports for access to their Fuel exports. quid pro quo. Now is not the time to break those agreements.
I'm also glad I read down to the Punters Politics quote. Way to lie and project criticism directed at you on to others. I will remember to take everything he says with a grain of salt from now on.