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Australia’s gas ripoff cuts across political lines
Something happened in the Senate this week.
If you win most literary prizes, you pay tax. If you win The Block, you don’t. How is this fair?
When Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen won last week’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, along with the $25,000 Indigenous Writing prize, she called on the Australian government to change the way it taxes arts prizes. Araluen won for her poetry collection, The Rot, described by the judges as “a work of remarkable poetic intelligence;
Australians are fed up with our governments giving our gas resources away for free
If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy! After all, that’s how politicians and the media describe the gas industry. But the truth is the federal government collects more money from the beer excise than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, as Independent ACT Senator David Pocock pointed out in Parliament,
Australians are fed up with our governments giving our gas resources away for free
If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy!
One Nation’s rise gives progressive voters unexpected power in ‘safe’ Coalition seats
The rise of One Nation creates a surprising opportunity for progressive voters.
Off the Charts
Was your house freezing over winter? A bit more “red tape” could have kept you warm
“Deregulation” is back in the news, but this time it’s not Tony Abbott talking about “cutting red tape”, it’s Labor ministers.
Landslide Labor win out of proportion to primary vote
Labor won nearly two-thirds of all the seats in the House of Representatives with just over a third of first preferences.
Coal Mine Tracker
Since May 2022, the Federal Environment Minister has approved 12 new coal mines or expansions.
There are 31 additional proposals for new or expanded coal mines currently waiting for Federal Government approval.
If approved, the lifetime emissions from all 43 projects would be equivalent to keeping all of Australia’s coal-fired power stations operating for an additional 100 years.
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